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MOSAIC LAW 


IN THE LIGHT OF 
MODERN SCIENCE 


BY 
THOMAS H.’NELSON, EVANGELIST 


FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE ScHOOL, AND EDITOR OF 
“Tue Ram’s Horn,” AutHor or “Tue GosrpeL oF CAUSE AND 
Errecr,” “Tar Doom or MopERN CiviLizaTION,”’ ‘‘Mop- 

ERNISM THE MARK OF THE Bsrast,” Ertc., Ere. 





THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY 
BOOK AND BIBLE PUBLISHERS 
WINSTON BUILDING PHILADELPHIA 


Copyright, 1926, by 
THomas H. NELSON 


Matt. 5:17, 18 


“Think not that I am come to destroy the 
law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, 
but to fulfil, For verily I say unto you, Till 
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle 
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be 
fulfilled.” —Jesus. 


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PREFACE 


NO scientist for a hundred years has been 
more viciously attacked than Moses, the 
Israelitish law-giver. And though dead for 
nearly four thousand years, no other scientist 
has ever more fully vanquished his foes and 
advanced and exalted his position. 

After years of investigation and the testing 
of his writings by sound, modern science, the 
author of this book is convinced not only that 
Moses was a true scientist, according to the 
modern acceptance of this term, but a scientist 
of the most comprehensive order. In fact, 
Moses today leads all our greatest schools and 
the whole world, in all that pertains to the vital 
sciences, while the works of other great men of 
antiquity have almost completely fallen into 
oblivion. The proof of these statements is con- 
densed in the following volume. 

This book is the result of thirty years of 
original research on scientific lines for con- 
firmation or refutation of the truth and 
authority of scriptural inspiration. 

We find the unity between the Bible and true, 


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8 PREFACE 


modern science to be complete. These facts 
are condensed and stated in an interesting and 
clear manner in language suited to all. 

The author has lectured on these subjects at 
many colleges, conventions and general gather- 
ings all over this country and Canada; and has 
been urged to give these startling facts in book 
form to the world. 

In the hope that the faith of many may be 
strengthened by knowing these scientific proofs 
of the inspiration of scripture, this book is 
prayerfully presented to the public. 

THE AUTHOR. 


CONTENTS 
CHAPTER I 


Moses as the greatest of all Modern Scientists. 
Why wash inrunning water? The reason for the 
law of purification. What cold does and does not 
do for us. The Mosaic bill of fare is now 
modern. Sanitation as taught by Moses. 
Sabbath laws scientific. This was all pre- 
scientific science. The cause of sexual disease 
and its preventive. Mixed seeds and breeds of 
animals, Sabbattic years on a scientific basis.. 


CHAPTER II 


Sanitation and_ sanctification harmonious. 
Clean and unclean animals. Why are the pig 
and some other animals condemned? Car- 
nivorous birds and animals. The changed bill 
of fare. Why was it changed? Modern science 
justifies it. Is there a ‘firmament’? Geology 
now justifies the Mosaic account of creation. 
Earlier misunderstandings explained. Was there 
light before the sun appeared? ‘The sun created 
on the first day, appearing only on the fourth. 
The six days of creation proved by modern 


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CHAPTER III 


What constitutes sin, and why it is forbidden. 
Why badness kills. Negative emotions ruin 
health. Soul chemistry explained. The trial 
for jealousy. Cleansing the leper a true case 
of psychoanalysis. Incense asascience. Leper 
cleansing a symbolic science. God alone knew 


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these scientific facts in Moses’ day. Psychologi- 
cal chemistry, as seen in the Mosaic law and con- 
firmed by modern science.............eeeeeeeee 


CHAPTER IV 


God is a scientist. The mite and the Almighty. 
Why the forbidden fruit? Disease as blood 
poison. The responsibility of the will. Psycho- 
analysis again. No drug can keep badness in 
health. Were disease germs in the original list 
of creation? Moses leads the world in practical 
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CHAPTER V 


Idealists needed today. What was the curse of 
Reuben, and why? Sawing wood in a soprano 
tone. What is heroism? How mind controls 
matter. What is beauty, and why should we 
prize it? The value of virtue. Vice and virtue in- 
stantaneous in the will. The ideal standard of 
right. A moral sense within that corresponds to 
the natural order without. The fruit declares 
and classifies the tree. Poem. The true food 
of the soul in exalted and ideal purpose. Whence 
God derives his real authority, in the justice of 
His decisions and actions ............cc0ceeceus 


CHAPTER VI 


A man is what he eats. What is life? Can life 
be found apart from organized matter? The 
body reveals the character of the soul. Time 
reveals God. Virtue will be vindicated. Guilt 
is the father of ghosts. Was the ark a dynamo? 
Life as immaterialistic. Are life and law one?.. 


CHAPTER VII 


The brain does not store up knowledge as a 
squirrel does nuts. The soul alone knows. The 
brain changes, but personal identity never. 
How we shape our future destiny. The moral 
character of the choice contains the nature of 


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physical results. Life and death are found in 
soul attitudes. What chemistry reveals. Why 
negative passions curse man. What unicellular 
organisms prove. Virtue’s influence............ 


CHAPTER VIII 


The brain and nervous system. Disease as 
faulty vibration. Moral harmony. Making it 
hot for others. Retribution. How the counte- 
nance reveals the conscience. Faces don’t lie. 
Our loves shape our lives. Appreciation in- 
herits all things. The majesterial will is respon- 
sible. We see ourselves in all nature. Man is 
what he thinks. The scene reveals the seer. We 
make our own heaven or hell, in heart and home, 
and then get what we have made. Self-registra- 
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CHAPTER IX 


The Mosaic law still authoritative. Symbols ex- 
plained. Sacrifices and altars educational. 
The broken law. The cleansing laver. Shew 
bread. The lamp. Numerals. The golden 
altar. Brazen altar. The holy place. The ark 
of the covenant. Priests’ robes. Our scapegoat. 
Cleansing of the leper. The two birds......... 


CHAPTER X 


Moses ascribes all glory to God. The non-con- 
formist. Popularity a seal of death even today. 
The stoned prophets as the world’s hope. 
Martyrdom glorious. No resurrection for dead 
churches. It takes death to popularize the true 
reformer. Orthodox heretics. Ashes of the 
martyrs the seed of the church. Suffering 
sanctifies. A new universal exodus is coming. 
Moses and Joseph as types of Christ. The 
Adamic fall in every man’s experience. A field 
of moral conflict necessary. A morally responsi- 
ble being. Fatalism opposed. The Mosaic law 
should be taught in all our schools and its under- 
lying-scientific character explained ............. 


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CHAPTER I 


AFTER submitting the Mosaic law to the 
most rigid tests of modern scientific standards, 
the writer is convinced that Moses himself is a 
true modern—a radical scientist of the most ad- 
vanced school. He is even seen to be leading 
most of our present-day scientists in the popular 
and important studies of bacteriology, psychol- 
ogy, physiology, hygiene, botanic chemistry, 
practical eugenics, sanitary science, quarantine 
principles, zodlogy, geology, astronomy, etc. 

Though some say he never wrote the law and 
all admit that he has been dead almost four 
thousand years, yet he is the most vital authority 
today in our largest and most influential schools 
of scientific thought. He is also a standard 
authority on many elements of civil govern- 
ment, economics, social welfare, etc., as the 
following pages will show. 

What is left unchanged of the original instruc- 
tion in mechanics of Archimedes? What is ex- 
tant of the philosophy of the great Socrates, 
Plato or Aristotle? Who now follows the exact 
therapeutical advice of Hippocrates? The 

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greatest men of antiquity, generally, are but 
names of uncertain value, compared with this 
modern and transcendent scientist, law-giver 
and emancipator. The whole wide world, and 
especially its most intelligent and advanced sec- 
tions, are following, unchanged, his four- 
thousand-year-old commands, and are thereby 
receiving the manifold blessings of health and 
prosperous advancement. 

This paramount chief of the world’s great 
men, though belittled by atheists, has not only 
a past greatness like his competitors; but even 
now he is greater than in the days of his flesh; 
and today he leads a mightier host of modern 
Gentile thinkers than his original multitude of 
Hebrew slaves. Not only was he the real 
founder and father of his own nation, as one of 
the greatest of antiquity, but his system of laws 
and sciences has been made the very foundation 
and chief bulwark of the most advanced of mod- 
ern nations. 

There is no portion of the commandments of 
God in general, or of the Mosaic code in particu- 
lar, that is not based on a scientific understand- 
ing of fundamental law, and what was 
intrinsically best for the nation, and for the 
health and happiness of man in general, body 
and soul, here and hereafter. Though primarily 


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given by Moses to the Hebrews, these regula- 
tions have a universal and lasting application; 
because their underlying, natural and essential 
conditions, in justice and the nature of things, 
exist universally. Since there is a basic and un- 
changing reason for all that God says and does, 
what he says to one, he says to all; and what 
he once says, he always says. 

Though symbolizing, or made typical of, 
moral experience and need, as all physical ex- 
periences are, yet the Mosaic command was 
based on just, moral, economic, hygienic, 
psychological and physiological law, and har- 
monized with the underlying cosmical nature 
of things and the constitutional needs of man. 
The most modern research proves that not one 
command of the original law can be rejected 
without the offender’s suffering physical loss. 
Spiritually speaking only, is it true, that ‘‘ Christ 
is the end of the law for righteousness”; and, 
“we are not under the law, but under grace.” 

Look at some of the reasons why the com- 
mandments of the law were given. ‘The law 
commanded that every Hebrew must wash his 
hands in running water, after handling diseased 
or dead people, or old, polluted things. Why 
wash at all, and why in running water particu- 
larly? Now, after the lapse of four thousand 


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years, science has discovered that much disease 
is contagious and infectious and is propagated 
by infinitesimal bacteria, or animalcule, 
millions of which may attach themselves to the 
hands and bodies of those coming in contact 
with them. 

These disease bacilli live in etheral media, and 
are hatched out and multiplied by the bodily 
heat of the one receiving them; and diseases, 
both contagious and infectious, are thus spread. 
To wash in a bow! of water is, after the first dip, 
to wash in a polluted fluid full of deadly germs, 
leaving many of them on the hands and body 
when the bath is finished. But when the 
washing is done “in running water,’ they are 
constantly being carried away, so that when the 
bath is finished, the hands or body are free from 
the disease bacteria. 

This commandment suggests the wisdom of 
throwing away the rubber stop to the wash 
bowl, and washing in clear, running water, 
rather than in contaminated water. See in this 
the infinite wisdom of the law. Now, since none 
of the scientist of pre-Mosaic days taught this 
truth and many of our modern scientists have 
scarcely seen this point yet; Moses was either 
inspired of God in this particular, or he was 
for some other reason, nearly four thousand 


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years ahead of his day in _ bacteriological 
science. 

If a Hebrew sat on a seat or saddle, or lay ona 
bed where a leper or a man with an issue or 
running sore sat, or lay, he was pronounced un- 
clean, and required to wash his body and change 
and wash his clothes and go into isolation 
“outside the camp,’ from one to seven days. 

The seat, saddle or bed thus contaminated 
must also be cleansed by water or by fire, and 
then thoroughly aired. Why so? Because it 
was a sanitary disinfection and quarantine 
measure of the highest type. In that hot 
country, contagious and infectious diseases were 
more apt to spread than in the colder northern 
and western countries, and this intelligent pre- 
ventive gave the believing and obedient Jews, 
in spite cf their ignorance, the benefit of God’s 
infinite knowledge and understanding. 

Thus, believing obedience was self-rewarded 
and unbelieving disobedience was self-punished 
by the very acts of the actors. The light, gauzy 
clothing of that warm country admitted the 
body of the uncontaminated person into im- 
mediate contact with the diseased serum, and 
then the bacteria began to feed upon the victim’s 
body, and hatch out new batches by the very 
heat of the body; and thus the contagion spread. 


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This was all made impossible where the Mosaic 
law on purification was properly honored, and 
God is shown to be guarding the health and 
happiness of his people by giving this law. 

Here is an important suggestion on sanitary 
inspection for our larger city boards of health. 
They are often greatly exercised over the spread 
of infectious diseases, while apparently over- 
looking their prolific breeding places, in fearfully 
crowded tenements, inadequate ventilation, filthy 
quarters, bedding, garments, etc. These boards 
largely abolish external unsanitary conditions 
in the warm seasons, but seem to depend on the 
rigorous winter seasons to defend us from the 
infiuence of the pestilential conditions existing 
within these congested abodes. 

Winter, however, is more apt to intensify the 
congestion and restrict ventilation, thus aug- 
menting the disorder. It will take more than 
antitoxins, vaccinations and curative medicines 
to guard against a general infection while such 
foul breeding places for disease bacteria are 
allowed to exist. God’s great cleansing agencies 
of water, air and even fire, should be enforced on 
such ignorance, even for the preservation of its 
immediate victims. Organized society has a 
right to defend itself, preventively, against these 
destructive and pernicious encroachments. 


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The law forbade the eating of anything 
strangled, torn, dying of itself, etc.; and those 
who kept the law were automatically blessed 
with health and happiness, while those who 
broke it were cursed with loss of civic and 
religious rights, disease and death. Why? 
Because Moses knew that diseased, dead, or 
putrid blood was poisonous; that a strangled, or 
unbled creature’s flesh was thus full of pollution, 
disease and death, because the blood could not 
drain off, and thus putrefaction would instantly 
set in, with co-extensive ptomaines. 

This includes a chicken whose neck has been 
wrung instead of being cut so as to properly 
bleed the victim; also, all creatures that are 
killed with a hammer instead of being bled, as 
are most of our beef cattle in this country. 
The law demanded that a keen knife be used to 
bleed them, thus enabling the heart to pump all 
the blood from the veins and leave the flesh 
free from all deleterious matter, which can 
never be done if the action of the heart is stopped 
by first striking down the animal. Has this law 
become obsolete? Never, as Jesus said, ‘Till 
heaven and earth pass away.” Moses was 
radically scientific, even from a modern per- 
spective. 

These facts constitute the reason why 


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“kosher beef”’ is nearly always more free from 
disease than public-market meat. For the same 
reason, the creature offered in sacrifice must be 
young, free from disease and blemish; and this 
law being still operative among the Jews assures 
the purity of ‘‘kosher meat.’’ Think of this 
in contrast with the old, worn-out, diseased 
milch-cows which help to fill our stock yards. 

For these purely physiological and hygienic 
reasons the ordinary Jew was forbidden to kill 
any animal devoted to sacrifice. It must be 
brought to the door of the tabernacle and in- 
spected for disease by the priests, all of whom 
were, practically, veterinarians. Then, after 
inspection, these priests must themselves kill 
the animal in the scientific manner prescribed 
by the law. 

For this same reason, that of our physical 
welfare only, God wisely and kindly forbade the 
eating of blood in any and all forms. As an 
article of diet there are few more dangerous 
substances known than putrid blood. Itisa 
venomous poison, and even the most thorough 
cooking does not entirely destroy the direful 
results. A man is what he eats. The dare- 
devil acts of some butchers in drinking warm 
blood are based on the densest ignorance, and 
yield their fearful fruits later in an imbruted 


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soul and a diseased brain and body. Both 
Moses and modern science declare “the life is 
in the blood.” 

If any offensive thing was left by a man ina 
field, the Mosaic law demanded that the dirt 
be thrown over it with a paddle or stick. This 
is another sanitary and hygienic regulation; 
and as late as the Spanish-American War, it 
took the lives of many of our American soldiers, 
in the southern camps to teach us anew the need 
of this sanitary regulation. 

In some heathen countries where this sanitary 
law is disregarded, the air becomes so poisoned 
with infectious bacteria that the poor natives 
die off at times with plague and pestilence, like 
flies in a winter frost. Has this law become ob- 
solete? The ignorant believer in mere “cere- 
monialism’’ answers, yes. But Moses, Christ, 
and modern science declare, ‘Till heaven and 
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no 
wise pass from the law, tall all be fulfilled.” 

The Mosaic requirement that the leper be 
pronounced “unclean” and be rigidly kept 
“without the camp,” and that all who touched 
him should be considered unclean, until 
thoroughly disinfected, was the original of a 
standard quarantine measure that exists until 
this day in every intelligent nation. 


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All of our best hygienic discoveries prove the 
unwholesomeness semi-indigestibility, and dis- 
ease-producing tendencies of all animal oil and 
fat as an article of diet; thus revealing the 
reason of God’s prohibition of its use and his 
command that all the fat be burned up in the 
sacrifices, and his command to use olive oil 
and other vegetable oils instead. 

The pre-Mosaic law which he defended 
demanded six days of work and a rest every 
seventh day; and modern science has discov- 
ered that the human system is arranged and 
life is built upon the basis of a seventh-day 
change. At both the lowest ebb in disease 
and the highest flow in health, science discov- 
ers nature running to a standstill every seven 
days, resting and then starting anew. Ask 
your physician why there is a change in his 
patient’s condition every seven days. His an- 
swer that a new batch of bacteria is theu 
hatched is only half the truth. This “rest” 
and the tide of action and reaction are neces- 
sary for life and health to be at their best. 
What is true of man is also true of all domestic 
animal life. How did Moses know of these 
modern scientific facts unless inspired? 

Man in general has a pre-natal existence of 
40x7 days. That constitutional number pre- 


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arranges the human system for multiples of 
seven days in breaking up fevers, etc. 

All birds and fowls also, seem to be built on 
this seven day principle. The domestic hen 
hatches in 3x7 days. The duck hatches in 
4x7 days. The turkey hatches in 5x7 days. 
The goose hatches in 6x7 days. Small birds 
hatch in 2x7 days. 

Even insects hatch in 7 days or in 34% days, 
etc. 

Whole volumes could be written on the 
wonderful numerical system of the Bible and its 
symbolic significance. Number 1 symbolizes 
unity or the deity. Number 38 represents the 
trinity. Number 4 represents humanity or 
earthly, visible things. Numbers 5 and 10 are 
the base of all great numbers up to “ten 
thousand times ten thousand.”” Number 5 
represents the five senses and its double, 
number 10, includes the soul senses also. The 
Jewish Rabbins said it was composed of 4 and 
1, as an outstretched opened hand with erect 
thumb; the thumb representing God and the 
extended fingers representing humanity pros- 
trate before him. Six was the imperfect num- 
ber. 

Seven is the perfect number in Scripture. It 
is composed of 4 and 3 or the human and divine 


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numbers combined and represents a divine 
humanity. It is the Messianic number as 
Jesus was both divine and human. Number 
12 is the fruit bearing number and is composed 
of 4 the human number, multiplied by 3 the 
divine number. As all perfect things are repre- 
sented by seven, so all fruitful things are repre- 
sented by twelve; as the twelve months of the 
year, the twelve patriarchs, apostles, baskets of 
loaves and fishes, ete. 

Forty is the dispensational number and 120, 
as three times 40, or three dispensations, repre- 
sent the covenant age. Noah was one hundred 
and twenty years building the ark that repre- 
sented the ark of the covenant, as the Noachan 
flood represents the coming tribulation. Moses 
was one hundred and twenty years old repre- 
senting the three dispensations of the Patri- 
archs, Prophets, and Apostles, at the close of 
which “the prophet like unto Moses,” will lead 
a universal “exodus” out of this Egyptian 
world. 

Modern chemistry discovered the fact that 
every element has its particular combining 
proportion and it will combine in no other 
proportions, but those and their exact multiples; 
as hydrogen 1 and oxygen 16, which means that 
2 lbs. of hydrogen and 16 lbs. of oxygen will 


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make 18 lbs. of water, and the gases will not 
combine as water in any other proportion. Pure 
air is one-fifth oxygen and four-fifths nitrogen. 
The rocks are about one-half oxygen. This law 
holds good in all nature and the very construc- 
tion of the rocks and the balancing of the clouds 
in the air and all vegetable and animal life de- 
pend upon its accuracy. Inspiration well 
asks, ‘Who hath measured the waters in the 
hollow of His hand ... and comprehended 
the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed 
the mountains in scales and the hills in a bal- 
ance?”’ Intelligence says, God. 

For instance, The tone of middle C on the 
piano is made by a string that vibrates 264 times 
a second, and every string, or reed, that vibrates 
264 times a second makes the tone of middle C. 
This number is divisible by 11—264=24 x11. 
The octave above middle C is made by a string 
that vibrates twice as fast as middle C, that is 
528 times. This number is also divisible by 11 
—528=48x11. The octave below middle C is 
made by half as many vibrations; that is 132 
=12x11. Each string on the piano vibrates in 
multiples of 11, whether white or black keys, 
and the spaces between also. For example, 
middle C = 264, D=297; the difference between 
them is 38, which is three times 11. The space 


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is not always 33, however, sometimes it is 22, 
and sometimes it is 44, but always a multiple 
Oh as 

Our ears are so peculiarly constructed that 
the vibrations which are musical are pleasing 
and harmonious, and others the reverse, and 
this wonderful adaption shows an intelligence 
and benevolence that no blind chance could 
possibly have arranged. 

“‘He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?” 
‘“‘He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” 

Modern science declares that all light is 
vibrations. Inspiration says, “‘The morning 
stars sang together.’”’ Moses doubtless did not 
know that all light was music and music was 
light, but the God who inspired him did. 

The infidels of France, after the revolution, 
changed the sabbath from the seventh to the 
tenth day; but their mules and horses could not 
stand this unnatural arrangement and became 
diseased, and died so rapidly that scientists ap- 
pointed by the government to investigate the 
cause found that a return to the seventh-day 
principle was necessary to long life, as it placed 
the activities of the animals in harmony with 
the external and internal laws of nature in 
general and their own natures in particular. 
Thus, as one has said, the asses taught the 


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atheists a lesson in practical theology. Science 
at least declares that Moses was a modern in 
scientific knowledge. Russia, today, is in a fair 
way to learn similar lessons. 

We might add here, that the command to 
keep the sabbath is no more authoritative than 
the other accompanying command, “Six days 
shalt thou labor.’’ The poorest physical condi- 
tions are generally developed by an idle life. 
Health and true happiness are almost impossible 
in idleness. The action and reaction of work 
and rest produce health and happiness, and 
superabundance of leisure generates a flabby, 
diseased state. Surely, the Creator’s justifica- 
tion for making toil a necessity is found in 
part, in the fact that idleness breeds idiocy 
and work makes for wisdom. The bad are 
never very busy, and the busy are never very 
bad. 

As Jesus said, “‘ Till heaven and earth pass, 
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from 
the law, till all be fulfilled.” He meant by this 
statement that the necessary principles of the 
law were deeply laid in the nature and constitu- 
tion of heaven and earth, and in the souls and 
bodies of men; and that these moral, psycho- 
logical, physiological, hygienic, social and eco- 
nomic requirements were in harmony with moral 


28 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


and physical nature and our universal cosmol- 
ogy. 

The physical law thus honored by Jesus, the 
divine philosopher, is the very law that is light- 
ly cast aside by careless, ignorant people, among 
both Christians and Jews as ‘‘ceremonialism.” 
But while the ignorant boast that the law was 
merely “ceremonial” and is now obsolete and 
invalid is on their lips, the effects and conse- 
quences of its rejection are often manifest in 
their physical lives, as a plague, a consump- 
tion, and a curse. 

Those who cast away the word of God will 
see it transformed into a hissing, stinging ser- 
pent, like Moses’ staff which it represents, from 
whose face he may well flee. 

Well did Jesus say, “ Think not that Iam come 
to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not 
come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I 
say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one 
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
law, till all be fulfilled.”” There is a scientific 
and symbolic law, but there never was such a 
thing in the Bible as a mere ceremonial law. 

All the nameless and shameless sexual dis- 
eases that curse ignorance and vice by sending 
the actors and their offspring prematurely to 
the grave, spring primarily from the ignoring 


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of the Mosaic law’s prohibitive commandment 
against the use of the powers of females at 
certain times, when the law declared them to 
be “unclean.” Herein is the origin of syphilitic 
and similar contagion. 

There is nothing more poisonous than putrid 
blood, and through the porous mucous mem- 
brane this venom is absorbed into the vitals of 
the system and disease produced as a varied 
contagion, to spread and curse ignorance and 
vice with premature contamination, decay, and 
death. 

A little thoughtfulness reveals the Mosaic re- 
quirement, of a continuation of the previously 
existent practice of circumcision itself, to be a 
similarly scientific, healthful, intelligent and 
sanitary precaution, against the incubation of 
venereal bacilli and the contracting and spread- 
ing of disease. This incubation of original dis- 
ease germs becomes almost a physical impossi- 
bility in males, after circumcision. Of course, 
this does not safeguard against disease when in 
contact with an organ already diseased. 

God declares that he ‘‘visits the iniquity of 
the fathers upon the children unto the third and 
fourth generation of them that break his com- 
mandments; and shows mercy unto thousands 
of them that love him.” Herein is a very re- 


30 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


markable statement, for modern scientific blood 
tests reveal that the taints of syphilitic bacteria 
and kindred contamination in the blood always 
reach to the “third generation”? and never in 
virulent form beyond the “‘fourth.’”’ Was this 
originally scientific statement of Moses a mere 
fortuitous guess, or was he inspired of God? 
An Austrian professor by the name of Gregor 
Mendel, in recent years proved to the satisfac- 
tion of all true scientists that a true bio-genetic 
law exists in nature, which prevents any and all 
creatures from passing on to their offspring any 
faculty or instinct that they did not themselves 
receive in fertilization. Further experiments 
with Mendel’s law on rabbits, guinea pigs, 
pigeons, chickens, etc., of different varieties, 
colors and characteristics, reveal the fact that 
cross-breeds, semi-hybrids, ete., correct their 
parental mixing, to one hundred per cent of pure 
breed, of each parent, in three to four genera- 
tions. This last fact places a modern scientific 
verification on Moses’ statement as to pure, as 
well as diseased blood; and reveals it in animals 
as well as in man. Mendel’s law also verifies 
Moses’ statement that all creatures reproduce 
only, ‘‘after their kind,” and not otherwise, as 
organic, evolutionists declare. Science has but 
recently discovered these astounding facts. 


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If Moses was not divinely inspired, how did 
he manage to “scoop” modern science in these 
several particulars by nearly four thousand 
years? 

Men spend the whole period of their lives to- 
day to become proficient in but one branch of 
science. We herein prove Moses to have been 
an advanced specialist in all the essential 
sciences from geology up to astronomy, includ- 
ing the vital sciences. As this is a feat beyond 
mere human possibility, his inspiration is proved 
thereby and the divine authority of his writings 
is thus further established. 

Science evidently knew nothing of many of 
these facts till very recently. The above radical 
regulations on preventive sexual hygiene, sound 
as if they were written in the present decade, by 
an advanced authority on practical eugenics. 
God made the keeping of this physiological 
necessity doubly safe by appealing to the relig- 
ious instinct of his people for its enforcement, 
because at that time it was too early in the his- 
tory of the intellectural development of the race 
to show the scientific, bacteriological necessity 
thereof. 

The Mosaic prohibition of nearly four thous- 
and years ago, against mixed seeds in field or 
vineyard is an active modern principle of good 


32 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


agriculture and horticulture. This command 
safeguards the crops from hurtful crossing and 
accidental misegenation, that tends to ruinous 
degeneracy. It looks as if the whole science of 
pollen activity or essential fertilization in seed 
life lay open before Moses, as before our modern 
savants. 

A similar Mosaic command safeguarded the 
various breeds and species of cattle and fowl 
against similar deterioration. ‘‘Thou shalt not 
let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind.” All 
the best breeds of cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, 
etc., are built up to their best, modern, prize- 
winning status on this principle of forced dis- 
association from all other kinds. If this princi- 
ple of perfect isolation in breeding is not 
thoroughly safeguarded, the result is degener- 
acy and defeat. Ask the standard-bred cattle 
raiser, or prize-chicken fancier, about this fact. 

The prohibition against using an ox with a 
horse or ass, had a modern humanitatian basis 
and considered the uncongeniality of these ani- 
mals for association with each other. Their 
diverse step, rate of speed, objects of fear, degree 
of sensitiveness, etc., entirely unfitted them for 
working companions, and till this day the ex- 
perimental intelligence of man has largely ac- 
quiesced in this command, and we exempt these 


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domestic animals from the cruelty of this forced 
companionship. 

The legal prohibition against the sexes’ inter- 
change of clothes is a vital question to this day, 
and good will it be for the health and morals of 
the race in our midst, if the precepts and practice 
of our fathers are upheld in general, and the 
question is finally settled in harmony with 
God’s command by Moses in Deut. 22:5. 
Only as a necessary working expediency should 
we depart from this rule. The general tendency 
toward departure from the Word of God herein, 
and to dress women in men’s clothes has a co- 
extensive tendency to break down the divine 
protection of maidenly modesty and endanger 
the virtues, morals, health and happiness of all 
participants therein. 

The additional prohibition against the use of 
garments of mixed wool and linen is doubtless 
more than a mere religious rite, or type of 
separation between the moral truth, taught by 
- garments received from animal sacrifice and 
the natural ones that represent the educational 
fruit of the earth. This is really the distinction 
between the sacrifices of Abel and Cain. The 
one was a practical confession of sin and the 
need of a vicarious sacrifice; the other was a 
mere evolutionary offering of the self-developed 

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34 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


fruit of the earth. It was ancient ‘ Modern- 
ism.” 

An old-timer fuller, in his experience with the 
shrinking of woolen goods and the almost co- 
equal expansion of linen goods, instantly saw 
the reason for the Mosaic command. The law 
therein protected the ignorant weaver from do- 
ing that ‘mingling’ which would be ruinous 
to his hopes and destroy the market value of 
his product. God, as a father, thus revealed 
his interest in the most minute plans and actions 
of his people. And, remember, that all this 
was away back nearly four thousand years ago, 
before personal experience had taught any 
people the reason of these things, which the 
law thus controlled and safeguarded. 

The Mosaic command for the seventh, or 
sabbatic, year of rest, not only for the people 
but for the whole land of Israel, is another 
scientific arrangement that modern investiga- 
tion has scarcely overtaken, as was also the 
land sabbath of each fiftieth year, as the “Year 
of Jubilee.”’ 

In certain sections of the world’s modern agri- 
cultural belts, human effort is cursed by certain 
fruit and vegetable insect pests that some years 
destroy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of 
crops. Many of these destructive insects, as 


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the locusts, the chinchbug, the cotton weevil, 
etc., live in warm countries, protected from kill- 
ing frosts, and are as largely dependent for ex- 
istence on the particular annual crops in which 
they multiply, as are the people that plant 
those crops. Nothing will kill these noxious 
pests like an utter absence of that particular 
crop from all the land for a year. This leaves 
the insect plague no hatching or feeding fields 
for their myriads of young, and consequent ex- 
termination follows. Though the rotation of 
crops can do much toward such extermination, 
yet it cannot kill off all the swarms, since all 
farmers do not rotate together and leave the 
land entirely free from hatching and feeding 
places for a year. Enough of these prolific 
breeders are able to travel from one untilled 
locality to another, where that desired crop is 
planted, to live over and thus populate the 
entire region with clouds of pests for the next 
harvest. 

The years of sabbatic and jubilee rest, for 
the entire land, fully met this need and ex- 
tinguished whole clouds of this baneful bacteria, 
fungi and insect plagues. It would be well for 
our Federal agricultural department to experi- 
ment with this ignored command of the old Jew- 
ish law-giver, who seems to speak in the very 


36 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


wisdom and authority of God himself. This 
point alone is a sufficient justification for the 
Mosaic command, but there are many others of 
almost equal value, among which are the year 
of land-rest and recuperation, thus giving moral 
and mental education to the people and the 
double restoration to strength and vital fertility 
through non-use for a year. Yet this was all 
made to illustrate and enforce religious training 
and educational expansion in morals that it 
would be well for us to emulate. 


—— «at! s ee ee 


CHAPTER II 


WHAT we call sanitation, God, in a sense, 
calls physical sanctification; and what we call 
right living, he calls righteous living. What we 
see to be desirable, or good, he calls virtuous. 
Only those things whose physical effects or 
ultimate outworking were baneful, were for- 
bidden by him as morally bad. All moral 
authority rests just here, in that the thing con- 
demned as immoral will eventually produce 
baneful physical results. 

To those who would enjoy his greatest 
mercies of health and happiness God in the Law 
prohibited the eating of swine’s flesh, and 
licenses as eatable the bodies of only such 
animals as ‘‘divided the hoof and chewed the 
cud.” Why was this distinction made? It has 
a reason in the deep-seated nature of things; but 
it is primarily a physiological and a hygienic, 
rather than a moral, question. 

The animal that chewed the cud and divided 
the hoof, such as the ox, sheep, goat, deer, 
buffalo, etc., because of the saculated condition 
of the alimentary canal and the secondary cud 

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38 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


receptacle, have practically three stomachs, as 
refining agencies and cleansing laboratories, for 
the purifying of their food; thus weeding out 
from their systems most of the poisonous and 
deleterious matter. It thus takes their clean, 
vegetable food over twenty-four hours to be 
turned into flesh, which flesh even the pre- 
Mosaic law said was “clean.” This was not 
mere “ceremonial” cleansing, but it was hy- 
gienically and physiologically clean and whole- 
some. 

The dietary habits of all such vegetarian 
animals were also clean in comparison with 
that of the omnivorous swine. On examining 
the swine’s anatomy, we find that, as a supple- 
ment to his bad appetite he has but one poorly- 
constructed stomach arrangement and very 
limited excretory organs generally. Conse- 
quently, in about three hours after he has eaten 
his polluted swill, putrid carrion, or other 
offensive matter, man may eat the same at 
second-hand off the ribs of the pig. 

This flesh the law condemns as unclean; not 
merely ceremonially unclean, but hygienically 
and physiologically as well. In the nature of 
things, it is gross, diseased, and deadly; manu- 
factured out of the basest and most diseased 
and polluted material and in the crudest and 


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speediest way. The diet of the pig is so deadly 
that it generally kills the animal itself in about 
eight or ten years. This is possibly caused, in 
part at least, by the powerful disinfectant and 
germicidal element that nature kindly thrusts 
into the system of all carnivorous and some 
omnivorous creatures. The swine is a scaven- 
ger, the turkey buzzard of the animal kingdom, 
the hyena or jackal of civilization; and, not- 
withstanding the preaching of some to the con- 
trary, God has never cleansed or sanctified or 
transformed him. He is still a hog. 

Those who kept this divine and pre-Mosaic 
law were to be blessed with health and happiness, 
and those who broke it were to be cursed with 
disease and death; but the bliss or blight is 
automatic and imparted, in measure, as men act. 
The flesh of the swine is, by many authorities on 
the subject, said to be the prime cause of much 
of our American ill-health; causing blood dis- 
eases, weakness of the stomach and liver 
troubles; also consumption, cancer, tumors, 
eczema, etc. 

These deadly diseases are scarcely known 
among the non-pork-eating Jews and Orientals 
generally. There is said to be no word for cancer 
in the original Hebrew language, nor is the word 
in the New Testament, because God’s eastern 


40 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


people were not swine-eaters. Our cold western 
winters largely form our defence against blood 
poison and death from our base bill of fare. 

If you examine carefully you will find a small 
abrasion just behind the front foot of the pig. 
Rub it off clean and press the leg just above the 
abrasion and you may squeeze a _ teaspoonful 
of dirty matter from it. This is an outlet toa 
sewer-pipe that may be traced all through the 
animal’s body. It helps to drain off the teeming 
filth with which the system is filled. If this ex- 
ternal opening becomes clogged, the animal will 
run about and grunt and rub his leg on anything 
handy, and manifest great pain. He seems al- 
most to know that he will soon sicken of so- 
called ‘“‘cholera’”’ and blood-poison and die of 
his own internal filth, unless he keeps this sewer 
open. 

On a close analysis of this filthy, scrofulous 
serum, or the “culture” of its bacilli under 
varied conditions, it is seen to contain the ele- 
ments of many dangerous diseases; yet how 
toothsome is pickled pigs’ feet to ignorance, un- 
belief, and disobedience. It is this internal and 
intrinsic vileness that causes a large percentage 
of our hogs to be filled with trichina and results 
in such havoc to human health. 

We might be excused from diverting our 


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attention from the scientific side of this dis- 
cussion long enough to insert a few remarks on 
this heaven-forbidden American delicacy. This 
creature that has been condemned both logically 
and theologically, takes precedence with ignor- 
ance over all the creatures of creation as an arti- 
cle of diet. He, of all creatures, is literally 
devoured. His body is eaten, his head turned 
into head cheese, and even his ears and tail 
inserted. His blood is turned into blood pud- 
ding; his stomach is transformed into tripe; 
his feet are pickled; his intestines are used for 
sausage covers, his heart, liver, and kidneys are 
cooked; and his very bristles are sought for 
wax ends, etc. There is not even his “grunt” 
left unused, for the transgressors against God 
and nature’s laws take up this undesirable 
remnant, and often “grunt’’ with disease and 
““squeal’’ in pain caused by their folly. Surely 
aman is what he eats. Is the law against this 
dirty, deadly diet obsolete? Ask the dyspeptic, 
the cancerous victim, or the consumptive. 

As articles of diet, Moses condemns by name 
and description all purely carnivorous birds and 
animals, and modern science discovers a poison- 
ous substance in their flesh—a secondary result 
of flesh-eating. His description is practically 
the distinction between the turkey and the 


42 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


turkey buzzard. To see that diet has much to 
do with disposition as well as disease, one has 
but to compare the vegetarian animals, such as 
the ox, sheep, deer, goat, buffalo, horse, etc., 
with the flesh-eating lion, tiger, lynx, jaguar, cat, 
etc. Itis hard to educate out what is fed into 
a creature. Hygienic science today in every 
land acknowledges a basic soundness in these 
Mosiac and pre-Mosaic prohibitions. 

The fowls and fishes sanctioned by the Mosaic 
bill of fare are designated on this same principle 
of eternal fitness in the nature of things. The 
creatures rejected are insectivorous or carnivor- 
ous, or have a dearth of digestive and assimila- 
tive purity, and those that are accepted have a 
distinctive gizzard and scale-arrangement that 
constitutes a peculiar grinding, refining and 
cleansing laboratory, which, with their purer 
dietary, largely assure physiological exemption 
from disease in their flesh. 

This is especially true of the pheasant family, 
including the chicken and turkey. ‘Their dirty 
diet would make their bodies deadly were it not 
for the peculiar gizzard-arrangement. The 
scale-less fishes and all shell fish, including the 
oyster, clam, lobster, etc., modern science dis- 
covers to be but lumps of vitalized and disease- 
producing filth, because of inadequate excretion. 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 43 


So vile are these creatures, that even the 
densest ignorance can be induced to use them 
only in our coldest seasons. If they were to be 
used in warm countries, like Palestine, or in 
warm seasons here, they would prove as ruinous 
to health as Moses declared they would be. On 
the bodies of shell fish, and protected by thelr 
shells, disease bacteria’ of various kinds often 
find prolific breeding places. Like excessive 
pork-eaters, the users of shell-fish delicacy owe 
much to the cold seasons for the preservation of 
their lives. 

The lives also of all flesh-eating animals are 
not only made thereby vicious and pugnacious, 
but are also shortened. in comparison to the 
lives of vegetarian animals. Modern science 
has forced the world to respect and accept the 
Mosaic bill of fare as hygienic. God knew the 
deadly tendency of the flesh diet generally, espe- 
cially in warm countries, and thus guarded His 
people against its secondary influence. 

In the two enunciations of the Adamic bill of 
fare, attributed to the Almighty, by Moses, in 
Genesis the first and third chapters, there is a 
comprehensive and scientific hygiene which 
proves that Moses was inspired, or otherwise an 
expert in modern “hygiology” four thousand 
years ago. 


44 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


In the first instance, Moses says Adam was 
told by the Lord that the human dietary was to 
be from the “herbs and trees in which were fruit 
seeding seed in themselves,” while to all the 
birds and animals he gave ‘‘the green herb for 
meat.” This was before Adam disobeyed and 
fell, when he was given a dietary suitable to the 
unlimited longevity that was presumably to be 
his. 

After he had fallen, he was permissively 
cursed with lingering miseries, which would 
make his slowly approaching death an educa- 
tional mercy. He was told that he would “eat 
of the herb of the field.”” He had lowered him- 
self to the level of the mere animals and hence 
was permitted to eat of their food. Notice that, 
according to Moses, God did not command 
Adam to eat of the herb of the field, but just 
simply called attention to the fact that he would 
do so, in his ignorance, which was a fruit of his 
fallen state. 

Ere we look at the nature of this distinction, 
we desire to ask, who can say that the new and 
gross dietary was to have no part in the miseries, 
ignorance, and death that was to follow? Why 
was this dinctinction made? It involves the 
difference between all fruits, nuts, and cereals 
on the one hand, and mere vegetables on the 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 45 


other. This is God’s distinction. Now, some 
may not recognize the clear outline that exists 
between the cereals and the mere vegetables. 
All cereals, fruits, and nuts, as a resultant off- 
spring from the original vegetable body, have 
a double remove from the filth and poison that 
is known to be in the fertility of the chemical 
drift, and often also in the irrigating water; 
while the mere vegetable has no such oppor- 
tunity of chemically purifying itself. 

In the case of vegetables, called here “the 
green herb of the field,” as cabbage, turnips, 
beets, carrots, lettuce, spinach, etc., the whole 
body is eaten. Not so with the fruits, nuts and 
cereals, for here the chemistry of life, in a sort 
of second growth out from the original body 
(which is itself discarded as not edible), pro- 
duces the pure nutritious fruit. The varied, 
mystic and vital forces latent in the seed, select 
from the crude and unrefined chemic substances 
the elements to compose the particular body of 
the tree, bush, vine, cornstalk, straw, etc. 

Then, partially from the refined substance of 
their own bodies, through the medium of this 
vital, self-acting, complex machine, they are 
enabled to much more perfectly purify and re- 
fine the chemic elements which enter into their 
fruits and grains, as the seed and source of future 


46 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


life. Chemical analysis proves this, and while 
granting common identity between the sub- 
stances of the tree and its fruits; between the 
stalk and the bean, yet it discovers much greater 
purity, refinement and condensed nutrition in 
the latter than in the former. In fact herein is 
found the natural reason for many of the mere 
vegetables, such as beets, turnips, parsnips, etc., 
requiring two years in which to produce seed. 
The first season is spent in refining and storing 
pulp, and in constructing the more crude, physi- 
cal machine of the stalk or body, from which 
and through which to produce in the next season, 
the more delicate, nutritious and condensed life 
kernels. 

Mere animals may browse the berry bushes 
and branches of the fruit trees, but not so with 
man. Animals may eat the straw of the oats, 
barley, wheat, corn, beans, peas, etc., but man 
may not. Mere animals were divinely intended 
to eat the coarse, pulpy body of the green herb, 
while man was largely to have a purer, a more 
nutritious, intensive and healthful diet. 

Now, to show the particular value of this dis- 
tinction, the true botanist, the chemist, and the 
hygienist, all declare that there is generally an 
average of between five and twenty-five per cent 
of nutrition in mere vegetables, and between six- 


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ty and ninety per cent of nutrition in the cereals 
and nuts. The fruits are generally acknow- 
ledged as nutritious, germicidal appetizers, 
palatable laxatives, and system cleansers in 
general. 

To more perfectly prove this point, we have 
but to remember that when we want to either 
fatten or strengthen an animal, we give it grains, 
while mere vegetation in the best sense supplies 
neither. A horse, a cow, sheep, or even a 
chicken, deprived of grain, shows poor results. 
Thus, also many a man, woman and child is 
undernourished, if not half-starved, on a purely 
vegetable diet. A return to the diet of cereals, 
nuts, and fruits would produce to humanity the 
best results in health, intelligence, and longevity. 

This bill of fare, which is now being recognized 
and advocated by all advanced hygienists, and 
but lately inaugurated in the best of our sani- 
tariums, was clearly set forth by the old Jewish 
law-giver four thousand years ago, as God’s dis- 
tinction given nearly two thousand years before 
that. If Moses was not inspired of God, we 
ask how did he come to be four millenniums 
ahead of the scientists of his day, in giving this 
scientific distinction in his modern bill of fare? 

Wearetold that the Bible term, “firmament,” 
is an ancient blunder. But look closer at this 


48 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


word “firmament.” Apologists suggest that 
Moses simply made a mistake, speaking after 
the manner of men; but did he? Dr. Kinns, in 
his great book, Moses and Geology, declares 
that the original term, ‘‘rakiya’’ means that 
which is spread out, or overspreads; an ‘‘ex- 
panse,’”’ rather than a solid sphere. Now, read 
the word ‘‘expanse”’ where “firmament” occurs, 
and not only is there no contradiction as to the 
facts of astronomy, but perfect harmony. Moses 
actually anticipated modern science. And this 
is one of the ‘mistakes of Moses,” so-called. 
Another “error’’ was that of the revolution of 
the heavenly bodies around the earth. After 
Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo taught the true 
law of the solar system, men raised an outcry 
against the Bible. And yet it is now found to 
be in perfect accord with the discoveries of mod- 
ern science, that the earth is not flat, but a 
sphere, and that it moves with perfect uniform- 
ity on its axis. 
Doctor Arthur T. Pierson well says, “When 
the modern science of geology began to unwrap 
the earth’s coverings and reveal the records of 
the rocks, timid faith grew pale and trembled for 
the Word of God. A vast age was revealed for 
our globe, and what must we do with the ‘mis- 
takes of Moses’? How came these fossils or 


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organic remains in the rocks—and in such 
quantities that coral reefs represent countless 
millions of zodphytes, and mountain masses are 
composed of shells not larger than a grain of 
sand? The Tuscan hills are built of chambered 
shells so small that one ounce of stone contains 
over ten thousand, and the dust that falls from 
the chalk at the blackboard under the micro- 
scope proves to be fossils. What enormous 
periods were required for living creatures to 
build such masses as these.” 

Some have attempted to account for the de- 
posit of these fossils by the convulsions attend- 
ing the Deluge; others have suggested that 
God built the world out of fossils, in which life 
had never dwelt; so that the rocks, after all, 
really lie to us. Others have been ready to 
thunder anathemas against science, because they 
could not reconcile it with Scripture; after the 
fasnion of the Brahmin, who, when the micro- 
scope showed him the folly of his pagan notions 
and practices, rid himself of his doubts by dash- 
ing the microscope into fragments. Surely, the 
Bible cannot need such methods of defense. If 
truth be divided against itself, how, then shall 
his kingdom stand? 

The correspondence between the Mosaic ac- 
count of creation and the most advanced dis- 

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coveries of science now proves that only He who 
built the world built the Book. Note a few 
instances. 

Geology now teaches a watery waste at first, 
whose dense vapors shut out light. Moses 
affirms that, at first, the earth was a formless 
void, and darkness was upon the face of the 
deep. 

Geology makes life to precede clear light, and 
the life develops beneath the deep. Moses pre- 
sents the creative spirit as ‘‘brooding over that 
great deep,’”’ before God said “Let light be.”’ 

Geology makes the atmosphere to form an 
“expanse” or so-called firmament, by lifting 
watery vapors into dense clouds and so separat- 
ing the foundations of waters above from those 
below. Moses affirms the same. 

Geology tells us that continents next lifted 
themselves from beneath the great deep, and 
bore vegetation. Moses, also, declared that the 
dry land appeared, and brought forth grass, 
herb and the tree, exactly correspondent to the 
three orders of primeval vegetation. 

Modern geology then asserts that the heavens 
became cleared of clouds, and that the sun and 
moon and stars appeared. Moses does not say, 
as only ignorance asserts, that God created all 
these heavenly bodies on the fourth creative 


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day, but that they then began to serve or to 
divide day from night, in visible appearance, 
and to become signs for seasons, days and years. 
Moses says that “In the beginning God created 
the heavens (first) and the earth (last).”’ 

Geology then shows us sea monsters, reptiles, 
and winged creatures. Moses, likewise, reveals 
the waters bringing forth moving and creeping 
creatures and fowl flying in the “expanse.” 

Geology next unfolds, the races of quadruped 
mammals, and so Moses makes cattle and beast 
of the earth to follow, in the same order. 

And on the sixth day of creation, geology 
brings man on the scene last of all; and so does 
Moses. 

And no self-confessed descendant of mere 
animals ever found any new species, since man 
appeared. In this, atheists agree that Moses 
was right. 

The latest geology makes the first light not 
purely solar, but chemical, or ‘‘cosmical.”’ 
Moses makes light to precede, not the creation 
of the sun, but the first clear appearance of the 
sun, by the space of three creative days. 

The sun itself was created with the astronomi- 
cal heavens, first. Look at the order of animal 
creation. Geology and comparative anatomy 
combine to teach that the order of creation was 


52 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


from lower to higher. Fish, proportion of brain 
tospinal cord,2to1. Reptiles,2144tol. Birds, 
3tol. Mammals,4tol. Man, 33tol. Now 
this is exactly the order of Moses. Who told 
Moses what modern comparative anatomy has 
recently discovered in the branches of ichthyol- 
ogy and ornithology, that fish and reptile come 
below birds and mammals? 

And these are some more of the “mistakes of 
Moses.”’ Here isa record of creation, produced 
twenty to thirty centuries before science un- 
veiled these modern facts; and yet there is not 
one blunder or error scientifically revealed and 
the coincidences and correspondences are so 
many and so marked, that a modern scientist 
has confessed that if one should sketch briefly 
the celestial mechanism of LaPlace, the Cosmos 
of Humboldt and the latest system of geology, 
no simpler and sublimer words could be found 
than those of Moses. 

Again, geology shows us that the vast plants 
of the great coal age are such as never grew in 
clear sunlight, but in long-continued shade; 
they are such as must have fed upon an at- 
mosphere full of vapor, and their wood is not 
hardened, as it would have been under sunshine. 
Who taught Moses to put the growth of that 
earliest vegetation in the damp, shady period 


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preceding the first clear appearance of the sun 
in the sky, on the fourth creative day? And 
thus, ‘The very stones are made to cry out,” 
in confirmation of God’s word! 

Modern astronomy proves that other worlds 
were formed before our solar system, and Moses 
was therefore right in placing the creation of the 
heavens including the sun, first, and the earth 
last. We should notice here that the Hebrew 
word asah should not have been translated 
“‘made,” but “appointed.” 

Moses here says of the fourth day of creation, 
not that at that time God made the sun and the 
moon, but that at that time he ‘‘appointed”’ 
them “for signs and for seasons.’”’ They were 
made in the distant ‘‘beginning,’”’ when ‘God 
created the heavens and the earth,’’ but ob- 
scured and shaded from vision by the water-belt 
or aqueous condition of the atmosphere above 
referred to; but at this period regular seasons 
began. 

“Geology teaches six periods of creation, ex- 
tending through long ages. Only to superficial 
thought does Moses appear to teach six days of 
twenty-four hours each. But on examining 
closely, we find the Hebrew word, Yom, means 
a period of time, and is often used of indefinite 
periods or seasons. The first chapter of Genesis, 


54 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


sceptics triumphantly say, makes the creative 
periods to be measured by twenty-four hours; 
and yet, in Gen. 2:4 it is used of the whole time 
occupied in creation. In Psalms 95:8, the words 
“‘in the day of temptation,”’ means forty years. 
We use the English word with the same loose- 
ness of application. A “polar day” means six 
months; “The day of grace,’”’ means the entire 
period of probation. Origen and Augustine 
long ago suggested that “day”’ might mean an 
indefinite period, and maintained that the 
Hebrew word was indefinite and when the 
Bible declares that “One day is with the Lord 
as a thousand years,’ it gives a clew and a key 
to its own interpretation. 

Again, you will notice that of these creative 
“days’’ Moses said, ‘‘and the evening and the 
morning were the first day.” If the solar day 
is meant, why begin with the evening? The 
solar day obviously begins with the sunrise. 
To account for this curious feature in the Mosaic 
record by the fact that the Jews reckoned their 
day from sunset to sunset, is to reason in a circle, 
for it was from this first chapter of Genesis that 
such an unnatural mode of reckoning proceeded. 
Now, when we turn to geology and find that 
each creative period began in an evening and 
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of darkness and order out of confusion) we see 
why Moses was guided to make each day to 
begin with the evening. 

Mr. Tullidge well says, that ‘‘with the ad- 
vance of discovery, the opposition supposed to 
exist between Revelation and Geology has dis- 
appeared; and of the eighty theories which the 
French Institute in 1806 counted as hostile to 
the Bible, not one now stands.” 

I must here refer to another pre-scientific 
statement of great importance made by Moses. 
This statement is found in Genesis 1:24, 
especially, but repeated about eight or ten 
times in this one chapter. Perhaps this repeti- 
tion is purely for stress and prominence, as God 
knew how in these last days this fact would need 
to be emphasized, especially in opposition to a 
false science. ‘‘And God said, Let the earth 
bring forth the living creature after his kind, 
cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the 
earth after his kind: and it was so.” Here is 
an originally-stated scientific fact of biology, 
that all the research of earth cannot shake and 
the atheistic materialism of the age cannot con- 
found. 

This law of true reproduction has been 
attacked by atheists and agnostics in all ages, 
yet the result but glorifies the fact as here 


56 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


stated by Moses. No ingenuity of man has 
been able to make plants, fishes, birds, or 
animals ever reproduce but exactly “after 
their kind.”’ No rocks of earth ever revealed 
a single fossil that belied this law of life, by 
showing a transitional specimen. Nature’s im- 
mutability in reproduction stands there as un- 
shaken as Gibraltar. This unchanging stability 
in the reproduction of all life, only ‘after its 
kind,” has been perfectly established and ac- 
knowledged only in our day, by such great 
scientists as Gregor Mendel, William Bateson, 
Dr. Virchow, Prof. Winchell and others. But it 
was clearly stated by Moses over four thousand 
years before modern science found it out. Yes, 
Moses said this four thousand years nearer the 
so-called ‘‘cave dwellers,’ ‘prehistoric man,”’ 
etc., when men were supposed to be just emerg- 
ing from the brute state. Was he inspired of 
God, or how did he come to know this pre- 
scientific fact, of universal acceptance today? 

This biogenetic fact of exact reproduction, 
only “after its kind,” is the real death-knell of 
organic evolution, as the method of life’s origin 
and development. 

Moses was surely right in saying, “In the 
beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth,’”’ and, that man was the last of God’s 


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creation. Modern science is forced to acknowl- 
edge that this is the correct order—the astro- 
nomical heavens, including the sun, first, and 
the earth last. It also acknowledges that no 
new forms of life have appeared on this earth 
since man’s arrival here. It has cost modern 
science years of research to arrive at this safe 
conclusion. Surely “the word of the Lord 
abideth forever.” 

Moses also declares that man had a moral 
nature and an intelligent and definite language 
when he first appeared, and not the meaning- 
less and noisy chatter of brute ignorance, and 
the ape-man cry of mere pain or pleasure. He 
says further that the original or primitive man 
gave names to all creatures, that modern 
science acknowledges contained a zodlogical 
meaning or constitutional recognition of their 
distinctive and particular characters. There is 
not a scientist in the world who can do it today 
without references to textbooks. And, remem- 
ber these professors have gone to school all 
their lives, and Adam never went to school a 
day. | 

But that feat was performed before man fell, 
when he had the unhindered, intuitional wisdom 
of God. It will not help these atheists to deny 
that Adam thus named these creatures, and 


58 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


attribute that feat to Moses himself; for that 
would raise only a larger problem. How could 
Moses do this without inspiration, as no science 
of his day had been developed on that line? It 
took the science of our day to reveal these 
facts. 


CHAPTER III 


NORMAL and virtuous moods and passions 
are affirmative, constructive, and life-impart- 
ine—refreshing the animal spirits, causing 
natural molecular motion and true rhythmic 
vibration and nerve action, thus purifying the 
blood and building up healthy tissue. On the 
contrary, we see all this reversed by abnormal, 
vicious, negative, and forbidden passions; thus 
a person’s stomach becomes upset after a fit 
of anger, fear, jealousy, revenge, etc. This 
forms a scientific reason and justification for 
God’s forbidding, in both Testaments, the ex- 
ercise of those negative and destructive affec- 
tions. As God says, “ Wrath killeth the foolish 
man and envy slayeth the silly one.” 

We see the infant die of spasms in it mother’s 
arms, after the latter has given up to some of 
these strong, negative emotions. We examine 
carefully and discover that the infant nursed 
enough poison in lacteal form from its mother’s 
breast to cause its death. Though psycholo- 
gically originated, this deadly ptomaine was 

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formed through the spirit action, by the nega- 
tive and forbidden emotions of the mother. 

We see a man fall dead or become temporari- 
ly insane with brain-storm, after a great fright, 
loss, fit of jealousy, anger, etc. Upon investi- 
gation, we discover that the nervous system was 
upset; the symphonous, vital vibration of 
health was deranged, and his heart could not 
throw off the atoms of ptomaine or alkaloid 
poison he was generating in his negative 
spiritual state, fast enough to save him from 
psychic congestion, or death from blood poison- 
ing. Consequently his brain reeled or his 
heart failed to beat. Inspiration said nearly 
four thousand years ago, as Just quoted, 
“Wrath killeth the foolish man and envy 
slayeth the silly one.” 

Science is just now in the gray dawn of in- 
vestigation of this vital connecting link between 
moral philosophy and psychological physiology. 
The chemistry of psychology, and the super- 
conscious and sub-conscious realms of the soul, 
are largely new fields in our therapeutical in- 
vestigations. Yet Moses, four thousand years 
ago, seemed to fully understand their existence 
and the existence and function of the solar 
plexus, or involuntary, subliminal brain with 
its intuitive selections and almost instinctive 


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conclusions and their automatic or electro- 
magnetic influence on life, through the volun- 
tary and involuntary nerve system. 

He understood the psychological cause and 
character of the abnormal and poisonous secre- 
tions that are created by and thrown out of the 
negative spirit life, into the circulatory system, 
and stored up like an adder’s poison in every 
secretory gland of the body. He knew the 
unnatural fermentation that these atoms of 
alkaloid poison caused in the blood, brain and 
nervous system, like leaven in meal, or the 
electro-magnetic agency that kills embryonic 
birds in the egg, or curds milk in a summer 
thunder storm. Asa therapeutist and bacteri- 
ologist of great insight, Moses seemed to under- 
stand methods of both augmentation and relief 
from these toxinated conditions. 

In the fifth chapter of Numbers, there is 
recorded a unique trial of jealousy and lewdness, 
which shows that Moses had a thorough 
knowledge of the chemical changes that are 
made in the nervous system, the blood and the 
secretions of the body by the abnormal and 
destructive psychological states. He knew that 
when this abnormal condition is coupled with 
certain artificially produced pathological con- 
ditions a very deadly toxin is generated in the 


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system that rots the very bowels and the flesh, 
and soon paralyzes the heart action. 

When the consciousness of innocence is felt 
and normal, moral, mental and nervous con- 
ditions of vital vibration are retained, this 
ptomaine poison is not generated in the system, 
and the artificially changed physical condition 
caused by drinking a certain “bitter water,” 
such as hyssop extract, etc., would fail to pro- 
duce the fatal combination and the “bitter 
water’’ would be safe to drink. The system in 
its normal state largely refuses to retain hyssop 
tea; thus it makes a good purgative. (David 
uses this knowledge, as an illustration, in his 
prayer for the bitterness of repentance— 
“‘ Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean.’’) 
But the abnormal, negative state of conscious 
guilt produces a condition where the system 
retains it, and, in conjunction with the alkaloid 
poison already generated in the system, a 
deadly venom is produced and fatal results 
follow. 

When the consciously guilty person drank 
this ‘bitter water,” in the avowed presence of 
God and under oath of innocence, the abnormal 
psychological agitation in the voluntary and 
involuntary brain-system, caused by the in- 
tensified consciousness of guilt and fear (two 


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powerful, negative states of mind), in conjunc- 
tion with the unnatural physical condition, 
produced this virus in great quantities, and also 
created an abnormal, rhythmic, electro-mag- 
netic action in the heart and nervous system. 
This double abnormality was so unnatural and 
severe that the most terrible blood-poison, 
nervous collapse and eventual death were 
caused by the combined shock. 

Jesus refers to this very truth of the Mosaic 
law, and declares deliverance to be a part of 
the phenomena that follows a true faith, or 
heart confidence in His Messiahship. ‘These 
signs shall follow them that believe. If they 
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them,” 
etc. Like Moses, he knew the power of mind 
over matter, through the subtle activities of 
the super-conscious soul, influenced by His 
Spirit. This, in part, is the scientific basis of 
faith for real divine healing. 

Moses’ directions for the cleansing of lepers, 
etc. (Lev. 14), is not only an interesting symbol 
of gospel cleansing, but it is a clear promise of 
something like modern divine healing, psychic 
suggestion, mind cure, soul science, faith heal- 
ing, electro-magnetic changes, etc. It is 
closely allied to cures produced by psycho- 
analysis, which many of our most prominent 


64 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


scientists believe to be a great possibility. It is 
a suggestive hint at a new psychopathy that 
seems to be struggling for recognition today, 
as a real “soul science” or appreciation and 
control of essential life vibration. 

This faith, or heart confidence, restores the 
true, soul attitude and health currents, and the 
normal nerve and brain functioning that makes 
disease almost an impossibility. Sin is declared 
by both scripture and science to be co-extensive 
death: thus we see why God, as a father, pro- 
hibits it. Surely in these particulars, Moses 
is a modern, a real transcendentalist. 

Now, since not a particle of this advanced 
psychology was ever taught by any people in 
Moses’ day, and even in our own day, we are 
in but the dawn of investigation of these sub- 
jects, Moses is again seen to be either in- 
spired of God or else he is four thousand years 
ahead of the science of his day. 

Instead of a useless waste of money and effort 
on mere ceremonialism as many assert, the 
aromatic anointings and the fragrant incense 
burned at religious festivals in the temple 
offerings formed a pre-scientific fumigation of 
the fetid atmosphere. It also served as an 
effective disinfectant for the hordes of ignorant 
nomadic worshippers who assembled at 


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Jerusalem, etc. The fragrant “anointing oil’ 
and the odorous smoke from the burning of 
those pungent, aromatic plants and spicy, sweet- 
scented gums, formed the most perfect atmos- 
pheric germicidal agency and safeguard against 
infectious diseases. It also served as an in- 
structive symbol of true worship, prayer and 
divine and brotherly love, and of religious dis- 
positions and affections in general. Because of 
this scientific arrangement of the Mosaic law, 
the massive worshipping crowds that thronged 
the Hebrew temple, were spared the infectious 
plagues that often slew thousands in their 
spread from Mecca and the so-called holy 
shrines of the heathen, where God’s law was un- 
known or ignored. 

Where did Moses learn of these potential 
bacteriological infections, and their prevention 
by disinfectant fumigation, four thousand years 
ahead of the learning of his day, if inspiration 
is impossible?’ Why do our modern scientists 
only after years of research, use practically the 
same principles of fumigation for disinfecting 
purposes? We answer, that all sound science 
springs from God’s suggestive spirit-whispers, 
to reflective, listening genius. All sound 
science, therefore, leads back to Him as its true 
source, and glorifies His Word as the law of life, 

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given by inspiration long before modern re- 
search was born. 

Every usage or command in the Mosaic law is 
thus laid deep in the cosmic nature of things, 
and in harmony with man’s constitutional need 
and nature’s law. This law was divinely given 
for our physical, mental, social, moral and 
economic benefit; not merely to please God. 
Its provisions, therefore, are binding on all 
people today who would enjoy the mercies of 
peace, health and happiness that the law 
promises to obedience. And, as Jesus said, in 
the nature of things, ‘Till heaven and earth 
pass, one jot or one tittle can in no wise pass 
from the law, till all be fulfilled.” 

This is the very heart of the gospel revealed 
in the law. In all true religion, the spirit im- 
parts a new heredity—divine life impulse, 
which predisposes and empowers the soul to 
assume these states, or altruistic dispositions, 
or graces, with all their constructive and attrac- 
tive possibilities. The assumption of these 
normal attitudes and emotions, harmonize 
the soul and body, both with each other and 
with nature and nature’s God. They invigorate 
the subconscious and superconscious soul, unify 
the divided mental states, rejuvenate the weak- 
ened and vibrant nerve system, and vitalize the 


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body, by restoring nature’s true equipoise, and 
cause the blood to circulate fresh and health- 
fully in the upbuilding of the best brain and 
body tissue. 

Whatever agency, either vicious or virtuous, 
that influences our affections or our mentations, 
correspondingly influence our lives. Surely “as 
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.’”’ And 
again, ‘keep thy heart with all diligence, for 
out of it are the issues of life.’ This fact of 
science justifies Moses in his several com- 
mandments to love God with all our hearts and 
to meditate constantly upon his law. Men live 
as they love. Our loves shape our lives. The 
influence of such thought and love is the most 
potent agency in developing a virtuous and 
God-like character on the part of the actor. 

This same principle of psychological chem- 
istry is referred to by Moses in the fifth chapter 
of Leviticus. There is also a distinction made 
here that is both illuminating and important. 
The statement is made that if one touch an un- 
clean person, or thing or vile carcass, even 
though he be ignorant of that fact he is never- 
theless defiled, and needs the cleansing pre- 
scribed by the law. His ignorance is no safe- 
guard against the consequences of a violation 
of bacteriological law, as the germs of the 


68 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


threatened distemper are already planted on 
his body by his own action, and nothing but 
the scientific and sanitary cleansing prescribed 
by the law can remove them and avert the 
threatened malady. If he fails to do this, the 
very acquisition of the distemper would be the 
proof, as well as the punishment, of the sin. 
Contrasted with this essential and unchang- 
ing material truth, Moses brings to light in the 
next statement the variable fact that if a person 
mistakenly, yet honestly, swears to that which 
is not true, it is not sin to him till he is made 
aware of that fact. Then, if he would continue 
to receive immunity from baneful physical re-. 
sults, he must meet the requirements of the 
law for that particular sin. The intelligent 
basis for this requirement is to be found in the 
chemical changes which modern science has 
proved to be produced in the secretions by the 
altered spiritual and psychological states. 
While this mistaken witness was in all good 
faith swearing to what he believed to be the 
fact, his conscience was clear; his mind was 
free from worry and his subconscious soul 
kept its proper equipoise and normal activity; 
hence no abnormal or baneful results followed. 
All this became instantly changed the 
moment his mistake was revealed and as Moses 


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said, he became “guilty and unclean.” As in 
the case of the unchaste woman above referred 
to, the consciousness of guilt produced the 
changed psychological state and threw the 
whole soul, brain and nervous system into an 
abnormal functioning, measured in its intensity 
by the degree of conscious wrong. The animate 
secretions would then become correspondingly 
poisoned at the very fountain of being. The 
involuntary magnetic life-action of the sub- 
conscious soul, brain and nerve system would 
then be strained and erratic, all vital vibration 
would become abnormal, and the ultimate 
rhythm of health would be fundamentally un- 
balanced and chaotic. 

These fearful consequences would all be 
abolished, however, by the consciousness of ex- 
emption from guilt on the part of all who 
obeyed the divine or Mosaic injunction of con- 
fession, restitution, sacrifice, etc. This is 
moral science, modern psychiatry (or soul- 
science) at the very vanguard of modern 
thought; yet Moses, nearly four thousand 
years ago, chronicled these facts in the rough. 
Was that fortuitous guessing, or was he in- 
spired of God? 

Please consider that these most recently dis- 
covered scientific facts, even now far in advance 


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of the general life of the most civilized and 
progressing nations of our day, were given 
almost four thousand years ago; or, four 
thousand years nearer the so-called ‘‘monkey 
state,” or of the much heralded ‘‘cave man” 
condition than we are now. If inspiration is 
declared impossible, this is a telling blow against 
evolutionary Darwinism and the materialistic 
atheism of the so-called “Moderns.” The 
very idealization of such exalted standards 
and the enunciation of such pre-scientific facts 
of life and law and complex human activity, 
would be almost miraculous even for our day, 
much less of four thousand years before the 
birth of modern science. 

Surely the word ‘‘God”’ is equivalent to per- 
fect science, and he who knows and does His 
perfect will perfectly, thereby supplements his 
own ignorance by absolute intelligence. God, 
only, is the measure of the universe; and man, 
made in His likeness, an elemental and poten- 
tial divinity-man, at his best, is the measure 
and revelation of God. 


CHAPTER IV 


GOD alone understands all natural and moral 
laws and their actions and effects, and to live 
in harmony with him and his book is our 
only hope. Consequently, true human prog- 
ress is always but co-extensive with our 
divine development and harmonization with the 
original divine cause, or nature of things. As 
God says, “Ye shall know the truth and the 
truth shall make you free.”’ Intelligence eman- 
cipates. Error is co-extensive slavery. Much 
of the credit that is given to drug medication, 
both curative and preventive, really belong to 
the keeping of the above sanitary and scientific 
preventive laws of life. 

As one has well said, “The proper study of 
mankind is man.” God, however, is the 
author and embodiment of true, ideal manhood. 
Therefore man’s soul and its divine originator 
and their mutual relations are worthy subjects 
of study. Since each thing is joined in varied 
ways to every other thing, all to each and each 
to all and all to all the ages, no one thing can 
be fully known, till all things in their relation 

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to each other are fully known. This is true 
from soil to soul, from mud to morals, and from 
dust to deity. 

Meditating on the life of a chigger that dug 
into his flesh, the author wrote the following 
ode that embodies this fact: 


ODE TO A CHIGGER 
OR, THE MITE AND THE ALMIGHTY 


Thou tiniest insect, come to me 

From out of the aeons that used to be, 
Whose life is a load of malignity, 
Declare to me all thy history— 

That was, that is, and is to be; 

And in that narrative I shall see 

In cosmical relativity, 

The World’s complete biography, 

The hist’ry of time and eternity, 

And the nature of God and humanity. 


And again, when a dish of fruits was pre- 
sented, he wrote the following on “The Unity 
of All Things.” 


Back of this fruit was the flower, 

And back of the flower the tree; 

And back of the tree was a seed in the soil, 
To help bring these mercies to me. 

And back of the soil was the season, 

The rain and the sun on the sod; 

And back of all this was the life of all life— 
The love, power and wisdom of God. 

These fruits are the mercies of God. 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 73 


All things to humanity are ultimately know- 
able, and all things are eventually do-able by 
this developing divinity—this deity going to 
school. Ignorance and folly alone would 
limit either God or self. Humanity, at least 
potentially, is the son of God, his love-life, 
given through Christ by the imparted Holy 
Spirit, makes a new trinity in unity, the 
“immanuelism,”’ which being interpreted (into 
actual experience) means “‘God with us.” 

We might even go a little further back into 
the old lawgiver’s pre-scientific record and find 
the original threat of divine punishment for sin 
based on this very fundamental psychology, or 
the involuntary action of the subconscious and 
superconscious soul. In reference to the ‘‘for- 
bidden fruit,’’ as the prohibited evil was called, 
God declared, ‘‘In the day thou eatest thereof, 
dying thou shalt die.”” Thereby implying that 
disobedience to the divine command would not 
only be a violation of nature’s essential law, 
but would create a sense of conscious guilt; 
and that the active results of such a combina- 
tion would produce this abnormal and diseased 
state, resulting eventually in death. 

Call this phenomenon the result of immediate 
demon possession, or an abnormal, psychologi- 
cal state, or a nervous disorder, blood-poison or 


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all combined or what you will: the result 
remains the same. The spiritual change which 
follows the prohibited choice and action is ac- 
companied by a keen sense of conscious guilt; 
and a disturbance is thereby automatically set 
up in the involuntary emotions and the sub- 
conscious soul, which instantly spreads through- 
out the whole nervous system. 

All molecular motion and the atomic vibra- 
tion becomes perniciously affected thereby. 
The vital nutrition and essential secretions in 
their formation becomes poisoned in conse- 
quence of this abnormal condition. Corpus- 
cular activity in the creation of new tissue is 
vitiated, and the life current carries the im- 
pregnation of disease and death throughout the 
whole system. This disordered state has a 
tendency to become chronic, to settle in some 
weak organ and assume the character of some 
particular disease. 

All disease is largely blood-poison incipiently, 
and here in men’s soul attitudes, habits and 
appetites, causing an abnormal electro- 
magnetic rhythm, we may look for the origin 
of the ultimate disease germs—the true counter- 
acting or curative bacilli. Consequently, the 
best antitoxin, serum, and vaccine lymph 
should be sought in the laboratory of virtue 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 75 


and in moral, mental, and material rectitude. 
Prevention is better than cure. 

This is the mind’s control over matter. 
The majesterial will is seen to prearrange the 
ultimate result and the responsible soul in 
its voluntary attitude toward equity and 
virtue, makes or mars the body itself. Surely, 
virtue and vice are instantaneous in the will. 
The will discovers the way. The purpose begets 
the power. ‘“‘ Whosoever will, may!’ No man 
is worse than he wills to be and no one ever 
will be better than his or her determinations. 
Here, in the majesterial will, is the seat of the 
soul’s responsibility. 

In the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteron- 
omy, Moses declared that all stages of mad- 
ness, delusional insanity, periodic brain-storm 
and general paranoia would be accompaniments 
of the psychic congestion and nervous strain 
that would follow the conscious breach of God’s 
law. This phenomena, closely resembling 
demoniacy, would be the fruits, the proof and 
the punishment of the transgression. Psycho- 
analysis today, as one of our most late-born 
sciences, discovers that this dementia, is in 
many cases caused by disappointment, a sense 
of guilt, self-reproach, fear, worry and the con- 
sciousness, real or imaginary, of divine disap- 


76 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


probation; and it has generally a close relation 
to the disappointment or abuse of the affectional 
life and the sex-faculty. 

When the intelligent psychiatrist can suc- 
cessfully analyze a case and extort a confes- 
sion of the repressed emotions or secluded 
desires, fears, etc., the derangement generally 
disappears and the patient recovers. The hope- 
less element in the disease, generally, is the 
fact that the patient himself is ignorant of the 
cause. The nature of his malady prevents 
him from seeing a connection between his past 
combined psychic congestion and abnormal 
mental strain on the one hand, and his present 
diseased condition on the other. Nevertheless, 
the sense of relief that follows confession and 
the accompanying unconsciousness of guilt, 
fear or disappointment which the very weak- 
ened state of mind brought in, shows confes- 
sion to be the true restorative. Moses also 
plainly intimated that the original cause of sin, 
disease, and death was the perversion of the 
affectional life and of the sex faculty. The curse 
of Cain was prenatal. 

All this deliverance was provided for on a 
higher plane by the Mosaic demand for a 
virtuous life and for confession and sacrificial 
cleansing as a restorative, where wrong had 


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been done. Moses was evidently a_ basic 
psycho-analyst of both a curative and pre- 
ventive character. God has well said, ‘‘He 
that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but he 
that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall 
have mercy.” Theology and pathology are 
supplementary and complementary to each 
other. Where they are separated, the theolo- 
gian becomes a gainless lover of God and the 
pathologist becomes a godless lover of gain. 

Sin, then, or conscious guilt, is always co- 
existent and co-extensive abnormality, dis- 
ease and death; and the greater the sin, the 
more intensified is the result. God’s reason for 
prohibiting sin is always justified in the destruc- 
tive, physical character which it bears. It has 
no natural place in the human life; but, like 
sand in the eyes, poison in the stomach or 
thorns in the flesh, it is always an abnormal 
irritant, or malignant element, a virus and a 
curse. ‘Dying thou shalt die.” A little sin 
is surely a little disease, and a little disease is a 
little death, and the more sin, the more disease 
and death, till prolonged “dying thou shalt 
die.” 

Popular pathology is prone to act on the belief 
that all existing bacterial diseases are but the 
harvest of previously existent disease; and that. 


78 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


the disease bacilli are the cause, rather than the 
result, of the particuiar malady. As far as we 
know, this does not seem true, but we have no 
sure ground for asserting that we have entirely 
encompassed the subject. This fact, if un- 
altered, of course would not only make new 
bacterial diseases an impossibility, but it would 
force us to the conclusion that all forms of 
present disease-bacteria had always existed and, 
either as infections or contagions, had perpetu- 
ated themselves. 

It would further force the conclusion that not 
even the most abnormal living, the filthiest 
quarters, or the most deleterious food or drink, 
or all combined, would produce any new bacter- 
ial disease, if the life was but kept free from 
contact with previously existent infections and 
contagions. All that this unnatural living 
could possibly do would be to create a predis- 
position towards the particular disease. This 
is asking a great credulity of the public, and it 
seems to place a real tariff on sanitary science 
and hygiene, and all but place a premium on 
careless living. How then was the first case of 
bacterial disease acquired? Surely abnormal 
bacteria were not in the original list of creation. 
Homeopathy in general, and many adherents 
of other medical schools in particular, have 


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leaned to the belief that immorality and psychic 
abnormality have become fundamental ele- 
ments in the production of new diseases. 
Newstrains and varieties of disease often appear, 
and differentiated bacteria are found as their ac- 
companiment. The general teaching of Moses 
as herein set forth supports the moral theory of 
the ortgin of disease; and they allow the partic- 
ular disease bacteria to appear as a result, as 
well as a cause, of the particular malady. And 
in both these positions Moses is abreast of the 
best scientific thought of our day. 

There is, however, a great variety of opinion 
among scientists on some of these points, and 
among some schools a very unsettled and chang- 
ing opinion. 


CHAPTER V 


AGAIN, as a mental philosopher or practical 
psychologist, Moses was a modern idealist. 
Read his exhortation to Joshua and the people, 
in Deut. 31:6, 7. He knew that success was a 
soul-quality and consequently exhorted to ideal 
attitudes and unlimited undertakings. 

The world and the church both need men of 
personal initiative, self-reliance, lofty ideals, 
altruistic purposes, and faith in God. The age 
is dying for want of men with backbone, pur- 
pose, and determination. The real food of the 
soul is idealism and exalted determination. The 
soul is expanded only in an altruistic display of 
the heroic and the exalted, unselfish choice and 
effort. The Christian life is a clarion call to 
sacrifice and cross-bearing for vicarious and 
unselfish ends. The real soul starves and 
shrinks in all selfish living, and even in the 
commonplace good things of earth it finds no 
food or development. The Christian virtues 
are more than mere natural goodness. They 
are nature’s best, set on fire by the super- 
natural love-life of God, through the spirit. 

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Give us men thus divinely unctionized, with 
hearts of flame and tongues of fire, with noble 
resolves, unselfish and worthy ideals and 
glorious devotion to their brothers’ welfare, 
and they will set the church and the world on 
fire. Such men will stamp truth, in some form 
suitable to their own characters, indelibly on 
the age. They will be epoch makers, leaders 
of the people, soprano singers; and, “whoso- 
ever will may come” into their holy and in- 
fluential company. Here is the rub, however, 
we must will. 

Men should learn the lesson of vicariousness 
and independence; to saw wood in soprano; 
to run a plough in the leading tone. There are 
too many selfish folks willing to stop at inferior 
positions; and, so to speak, take a minor part, 
sing alto, bass, etc.—anything but bear the un- 
selfish responsibility of leading the band. 
Most men have no real altruistic purpose and 
ambition and no keen sense of personal respon- 
sibility and duty, and no will to succeed in 
worthy undertakings for the good of others. 

The curse of Reuben is the malediction of 
many, “Unstable as water, thou shalt not ex- 
cel.”” Water when poured into a bottle takes 
the shape of the bottle; when poured into a 
jug or pitcher, it takes the shape of the recep- 


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tacle which contains it. When poured on the 
ground or floor, it flattens out in a helpless 
dependence upon the accidental walls or solid 
objects around it. Thus it is shaped by its 
surrounding circumstances, moulded by its en- 
vironment—without independence, stability or 
fixedness. Many people are thus ‘“‘unstable as 
water,’’ wavering and void of purpose, convic- 
tion or responsibility. These inferiors who are 
influenced by the dealings or decisions of other 
people, or by their circumstances, have little or 
no conviction or personal determination, and 
such people ‘‘never excel.” 

The purposeless soul is a powerless soul, but 
the man of purpose is a man of power. Both 
the church and the world want leaders who need 
not to look for jobs, but who can make them, 
men who will establish precedents rather than 
merely follow them. Both need men and 
women who aspire to excellence, and who will 
not be satisfied with cheap results or low attain- 
ments. 

These will prepare themselves for prominent 
possibilities; they will fit themselves to lead 
the procession. These affirmative souls do 
everything ‘‘in an affirmative mood,” even to 
the operating of a factory or mine. They hoe 
potatoes or plow corn in soprano; they keep 


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books, build a house, mend socks, or raise babies 
in the leading tone. 

We want more soprano or tenor singers of a 
major strain in every realm of life. Too many 
are willing to stop at an almost abject place and 
play second fiddle. They hide in the crowd 
and dodge the responsibility of making things 
go. All ages call for believing, affirmative 
minds—constructive souls, who would run a 
bank or a railroad in a leading tone; dauntless, 
heroic men and women; wisely ambitious, re- 
sourceful and determined; who will take respon- 
sibility and scorn to fail; who aim high and 
thrust the whole force of their lives into the 
attainment of their worthy goals. 

There is no limit placed on human attain- 
ment, except the weakness of our own sub- 
jective purposes; for great characters are 
always themselves the fruit of heroic purposes. 
Only to the base is anything base. 

The masterpieces, the models in music, 
sculpture, painting, oratory, sacrifice, delight 
us, because we feel they are genuine, ideal ex- 
pressions of the true souls of their exalted 
originators, and they consequently find a re- 
sponse in our souls. 

They feed and please us, they soothe, heal 
and refresh our animal spirits, and restore the 


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true rhythm of health in our vital centers, by 
harmonizing us with heaven and putting us in 
tune with the Author of life and its laws. 
They are decisive; the element of command is in 
them. They speak in a commanding tone as 
authoritative examples, and we acquiesce and 
yield assent. 

The muddles equally displease and vex us, 
because we see them to be clumsy and invera- 
cious. We consider them as proofs of low 
ideals, heartlessness, mendacity and almost 
unforgivable ignorance. The heroic element of 
virtue and lofty purpose is lacking. 

We see through the repulsive representations, 
the undeveloped conditions or counterfeit pre- 
tensions of the souls of the actors, and we 
loathe the false emotion as revealed in the 
faulty expression. Beauty, whether of face, 
form or scenery, gives us the same pleasure as 
the masterpieces of art and science. We feel 
it is an expression of the true, right, or just 
elements in the character of its possessor and 
originator. We are charmed, captivated, yet 
pleased in our captivity. 

The same emotions are produced by real 
heroism, gallantry, magnanimity, generosity 
and, in a limited sense, by every pronounced 
Christian disposition. We feel we have seen a 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW. 85 


soul; we have met the Master; we have found 
the model; we have stepped behind the cur- 
tain; we have tasted the powers of the world 
tocome. We have discovered a limited realiza- 
tion of our own best ideals, hope has revived 
and been strengthened, and heaven has been 
made more of a reality. 

This altruistic attitude is the true atmosphere 
of great souls. We feel here that an expression 
of what we should be, in our own true lives, is 
before us. This emotion is life, ideal and 
genuine, and God comes and vivifies us through 
the prospect it inspires. Limitedly, we see the 
saviors, and are satisfied and urged on to new 
personal attainments. 

This is the orthodox element in our recogni- 
tion of the genuine generally, and the inspiring 
cause of the world’s tendency toward hero wor- 
ship. We admire, we almost adore, before we 
are aware of it, and we commend almost in 
spite of ourselves. This divine capacity for 
grandeur, and our natural appreciation of the 
heroic and the sacrificial is easily perverted into 
an idolatrous hero-worship, which is both fool- 
ish and dangerous. 

Though few obey the commandment fully, 
yet the Mosaic religion was, and the Christian 
religion 7s, a clarion call to all men to come to 


86 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


this exalted standard and through faith actual- 
ize the ideal in their daily lives—by soul-asser- 
tion shake off the mediocre and the inferior and 
rise to real excellence. All else is ignoble and 
unworthy of the gospel that we profess. 

No animal can live and accomplish its real 
life purpose except in the truest exercise of the 
nature of the aboriginal from whence it sprang. 
No plant can thrive and reach its best possibili- 
ties unless it follows the highest example of its 
vegetable parent; and, by the same law, no 
soul can meet its truest ends except it heroically 
emulate the Divine Original from whom it 
sprang, and in whose image and likeness it was 
elementally and potentially made. 

There are at least two divisions of mental 
philosophy or soul science which, though over- 
lapping and blending together, are yet quite 
distinct; namely, the merely mental and the 
purely moral realms. Man is a compound of 
dust and deity; of soil and soul; of mud and 
morality. The animal and the spiritual are so 
divinely blended into one rational being that 
each is supplementary and complementary to 
the other; to truly know one, we must become 
acquainted with the other. 

The muscular man is controlled by the mind, 
but the mind is controlled or should be con- 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 87 


trolled by moral considerations. Nothing that 
the mere animal man can do is necessarily 
virtuous, as true heroism or morality must lie 
entirely within the spiritual realm of exalted 
and noble purpose. 

The ethical sphere of morally responsible 
rationality is the home of the ideal standard— 
the exalted aim of the conceptionally worthy 
emotion, desire and purpose in all things. In 
this realm of fine arts, morality resides, and 
often presides as well; and the soul ascribes 
every beatitude and grace to the thing that 
should be; the unlimited and heroic standard; 
the consummate emotion; the absolute con- 
ception and the model form. 

In this throne room of aesthetics, the ancient 
Greeks sensibly deified Beauty in creation. 
They recognized the fact that every exalted 
sentiment, every excellence in emotion, every 
ideal conception and noble thought, beget their 
own appropriate and beautiful manifestation or 
expression in some act, work or model; and 
that the expression always will be characteristic 
of and co-extensive with the impression made 
upon the soul. 

Just herein the Beautiful is apprehended as 
the useful also. Nature works through Beauty 
out towards the virtuous, perfect and absolute 


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expression; and all things are keenly observed 
to grow beautiful in measure as they approach 
God, and to grow repugnant in measure as they 
depart from him. 

The altruistic principle of true heroism is 
always moral and virtuous; and real morality 
is the very fountain from whence flows the 
stream of virtue. Though every gracious dis- 
position is a virtue, yet we use the word virtue 
in a general and comprehensive sense, to in- 
clude all excellencies and nobilities of character. 

A truly and broadly virtuous character, 
then, must be pure, strong, simple, quiet, hope- 
ful, resolute, free, fearless, independent, altruis- 
tic, frank, generous, sympathetic and sacrificial. 
In fact, it must include, in general, the great 
mass of the individual virtues. No mere time- 
server, policy worker or artful dodger, can be 
truly virtuous, or Christian, in character. No 
double-minded compromiser can possess real 
virtue. 

No servile slave to the will of another, be he 
employer, creditor, persecutor or an overbear- 
ing officer of the law, a church or a political 
party, etc., can ever possess while in such bond- 
age true virtue of character. No devotee of 
foolish fashion who sacrifices modesty, comfort, 
health and even decency to a perverted popular 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 89 


Opinion, can at the same time possess a truly 
independent and virtuous character. 

The valiant, free and independent vigor of 
manly character is necessarily lacking in those 
trimming and time-serving slaves. These are 
“unstable as water and will never excel.” <A 
truly heroic and virtuous character goes calmly 
to his duty, entirely uninfluenced by intimida- 
tions, commands, threats, persecutions, 
promises, loss of friends, position, wealth, 
popularity, or any such things. 

He feels that there is no higher authority than 
his own divine, personal recognition of the ideal, 
just and right course; he sustains the authority 
of his own convictions; he feels that, as a 
rational being, he is bound to act rationally 
and recognize no arbitrary authority or power 
that fails to convince his God-given intelligent 
and reasonable soul. 

Even God himself will never invade these 
rational rights of the soul with any other than 
high and holy educational inducements to a 
larger liberty and a grander virtue. He who 
would otherwise encroach upon these sacred 
soul-rights is that soul’s real foe, no matter in 
what guise he may appear. 

The real beauty, as well as the value, of 
virtue is its pure, strong, courageous, self-reliant 


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independence of all things and peoples; its in- 
dependent right to knowledge and liberty. Its 
possessor feels that to keep the light he must 
bear witness to the light, defend, follow and be 
true to it, at all hazards. 

He feels that true self-determination is the in- 
alienable right and property of the free soul; 
and in this attitude of moral militance he partly 
agrees with the old transcendental mystics, who 
declared the essential soul to be called to per- 
fect poverty in physical affairs, to perfect soli- 
tude in social matters and to perfect silence in 
vocal affairs. Thus alone would Christ be the 
head and God be all in all to the independent 
personality. 

In ail places and degrees, unwilling soul- 
servitude is soul-suicide. Private judgment, 
personal liberty and rational responsibility 
must be reserved, or servile fear will lead to 
rank hypocrisy, after the loss of all manly 
principle and chivalrous dignity. These im- 
perative obligations of the majesterial and re- 
sponsible soul must be recognized and resolutely 
defended, or all hope of true, undaunted virtue 
is lost in their abandonment. 

This altruistic moral attitude is our true con- 
stitutional standard, and it is always instinctive- 
ly recognized and approved by the rational soul. 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 91 


In every crisis men see and instinctively approve 
the right, even though they may not do it. 
They also instinctively recognize and disapprove 
of the wrong, even though they may not act ac- 
cording to their convictions. Just here is the 
place where character is either crushed or 
crowned. 

Self-judgment is seen to be the only true 
judgment eventually, and even God appeals to 
this judicial faculty of the rational soul to 
justify all his decisions. The sanction of this 
rational and magisterial attribute is always won 
by the divine judgments. They are seen by it 
to be righteous, just and proper; and even 
where the soul is perverse enough to oppose 
the same, yet it involuntarily sanctions the 
equity of their character. Vice and virtue, we 
say, are instantaneous in the will. 

The universal moral standard, the standard 
of human virtue, equity and sanity, does not 
exist as some anti-Mosaic and anti-Christian 
writers of the Nietzsche type assert, merely by 
popular suffrage, or local education, with the 
possibility of being yet discovered as immoral, 
unsound or needing to be replaced by what we 
now believe to be unjust or insane. 

The standard of justice and intelligence to- 
day at the basis of civilization, though perhaps 


92 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


not perfectly comprehended or applied, is but 
an echo of the thought and life of God in 
humanity. It is, in general, constitutional to 
man, and has always existed in its ideal form 
as at present displayed in its best specimens. 
Ignorance, disease and perversity have often, 
partially or entirely hid it even in so-called 
Christian communities, but could no more ob- 
_ literate it than clouds could obliterate the sun. 

A revival of true intelligence and morality 
always co-extensively restores this absolute and 
heroic standard; or, rather, a return to this 
divine standard restores morality and intelli- 
gence, and prosperity results therefrom. De- 
parture from this universal and constitutionally 
virtuous standard, as the voice of God in the 
soul, or falsity to the just ideal, reveals relative 
ignorance; and an attack upon this standard, 
or a defence of any antagonistic one, reveals 
an abnormal intellectual or psychic condition 
in the actor, caused by depravity, perversity or 
disease. This is what was the matter with 
France at the revolution and with Germany 
more recently. Their curse was the fruit of 
their past irrational rationalistic standard, 
that ignored morality, fundamental right, 
justice and equity. 

An ideal standard of justice eternally pre- 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 93 


existed in our divine Original and Author, and 
it passes to us constitutionally as our universal 
ideal of the just and right gauge of action. 
We see, we know, we approve the right in- 
tuitively, even though we may not doit; and we 
equally see, know and constitutionally disap- 
prove of the wrong, even though we may do it; 
and just here is the seat of responsibility found 
and real manhood made or marred. 

This virtuous model is our inherent and con- 
stitutional scale of human probity and equity; 
apart from it we have no rule for righteousness 
or rationality, and in the absence of a criterion, 
the creation of ideal character is impossible. 
Justice, equality and rational intelligence are 
the universal and fundamental principles of 
nature, and by her very laws they are self- 
defended and self-perpetuated. 

Of all the religious and educational systems 
of the world, fundamental Judaism and Chris- 
tianity have been the only heralds, advocates, 
and exemplars of this constitutionally equitable 
standard. In this particular, they have a great 
advantage over all other religious systems, 
because their standards, ideals and require- 
ments harmonize with the best intuitional and 
instinctive conceptions of humanity, and par- 
allel all the laws of life. Man is constitution- 


94 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


ally religious, and his highest longings are 
most perfectly met by this Mosaic and 
Christian standard. 

Reason has always been forced to ac- 


- knowledge the existence of a supreme, self- 


existent, eternal, benevolent and universal 
mind; the author and preserver of all this 
orderly and unlimited cosmos. This fact and 
our relationship, as children, to this Absolute 
One, accounts for the existence of our moral 
sense, as the medium of union and communion 
with Him. Morality is our aboriginal element, 
so that we find within a moral sense or emotion 
that corresponds to the natural order without. 
All sound, external law has an echo in this in- 
ternal moral distinction. The benevolence, 
justice and intelligence of the case forces our 
respect. The God within us answers to the 
God without, and the physical and the spiritual 
are seen to be en rapport. 

The fruit declares and classifies the tree. 
“A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, 
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good 
fruit.’’ If the earlier or later fruits of a certain 
choice, word, or act be inequitable and generally 
baneful, it brands the tree of its affectional 
source as a corrupt tree; and being a corrupt 
tree, it cannot bring forth good fruit. Conse- 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 95 


quently, that emotional or affectional desire 
should be called immoral, unjust, evil, etc., and 
as such prohibited. 

It goes without saying, that the reverse be- 
comes equally true. Where the basic conditions 
are reversed, and where the earlier or later fruits 
of a certain choice, word, or act are seen to be 
just, beneficial, and desirable to unselfish in- 
telligence, that fact brands it as good fruit, and 
reveals the affectional and emotional tree that 
originated the impulse as itself good. Being a 
good tree, it cannot directly bring forth evil 
fruit, for life in every sphere can but reproduce 
its inherent quality in its essential manifesta- 
tions.. ‘‘By their fruits ye shall know them,”’ 
said the same authority quoted above. 

Nature insures herself in every realm, whether 
horticultural or theological; and intelligence 
discovers her real life essence in both her blos- 
som and harvest. The perfectly shaped apple 
tree is revealed in the shape of the apple, and 
the stem of the fruit answers to the trunk of the 
tree. The pear is the same, the fruit being 
shaped large at the butt and tapering to a point 
at the top, just like the tree. Thisds equally 
true of the orange, the cherry, the oak, the pine, 
the plum, the lemon, the walnut, the butternut, 
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The stem of the fruit represents the tree 
trunk, and the fruit is generally the very shape 
of the perfect tree. The perfume of the blos- 
soms and the fragrance and flavor of the fruit 
are also identical, and represent the very 
essence of the life of the tree. Surely, “By 
their fruits ye shall know them.” This is as 
true in every sphere of life as in the horti- 
cultural realm. ‘Out of the abundance of the 
heart the mouth speaketh.” 

The moral sense found universally in man 
not only proves nature to be moral, and the uni- 
versal cosmos to have a religion, but it supports 
and justifies the divine origin of the true 
corporeal arrangement. And just here is the 
seat of praise or blame, of guilt or innocence, in 
being true or false to the external arrange- 
ment, because of its harmony with the internal 
ideal, the just vision or the equitable prompt- 
ing. 

The soul, the magisterial will, feeds on ex- 
_ alted virtue as the intellect feeds on knowledge; 
and when both conscience and judgment ap- 
prove the virtue of the choice, the soul is 
happy, and bodily health has a tendency to 
follow. If, on the other hand, the majesterial 
and sovereign will allows itself to be influenced 
by the clamor of pleasure or profit, and chooses 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 97 


contrary to the decisions of the judgment and 
the dictates of conscience, self-respect is for- 
feited anc manhood is crushed and the soul is 
self-condemned, unhappy, and bodily diseases 
naturally follow. Whatever attacks or enhances 
our happiness, correspondingly attacks or en- 
hances our health. This is just what Moses 
originally declared: that man, even in dis- 
obedience, after eating the ‘forbidden fruit” 
would “know good and evil.’”’” How did Moses 
know this fact that some modern scientists are 
yet slow to grasp? 

The ultimate corporeal results of voluntarily 
breaking a moral law are thus seen to be equally 
baneful with a direct physical transgression. 
God has forbidden, as wrong, all transgression 
against the laws of nature and virtue, because 
he knew the ultimate results of both to be un- 
desirable and baneful. Science today justifies 
the commandment and glorifies the Commander 
who gave it. 

In fact, herein is revealed the very seat of all 
real authority. Righteousness, truth, and 
equity alone are authoritative, and God for- 
bids as a moral wrong only that choice and 
act where the ultimate outworkings are by Him 
foreknown to be baneful and deleterious. God 
commands and prohibits only those things 


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which, by their eventual fruits, prove it were 
best to have thus commanded or prohibited. 
’ True authority is always thus based in the 
virtuous or just nature of things, and not in 
any arbitrary assumption of supremacy. We 
ascribe all authority to God only because we 
credit him with being the embodiment of all 
intelligence, benevolence, justice, mercy, and 
truth. Could unlimited authority be placed in 
the possession of an imperfect or partial being, 
the universal cosmos would revert to chaos. 
God, who alone antedated all corporeal 
nature and made all things from himself, is 
justified in infusing this moral, self-rewarding 
and self-punishing element into nature’s funda- 
mental law. Nature thus protects and per- 
petuates herself in every realm. Then, know- 
ing its existence, He is glorified by basing all 
His commands, both positive and negative, 
thereon. No man can dodge the automatic 
results of its action, in bliss or blight, except 
by the moral nature of his choice and act. 


CHAPTER VI 


GENERALLY speaking, science is right in 
saying that ‘‘a man is what he eats.” But 
though this is good materialism, there is an im- 
material element in man that is quite important, 
and, as the great Teacher said, “Life is more 
than meat and the body more than raiment.” 
Life is not simply that materialistic organization 
of inert matter that many so-called scientists 
would have us believe it to be. It is rather an 
active, subtle and involuntarily intelligent and 
morally responsible vital principle, that through 
the process of selection, digestion, and assimila- 
tion does the distinctive organizing of the 
corporeal matter. Man is, rather than has, a 
soul. 

This “life,” or vital organizing agent, is 
capable of educational changes. It may be in- 
fluenced in good or bad selections, and it may 
be helped or hindered in its digestions and 
assimilations. ‘Thus it may exalt or degrade, 
bless or blast itself. It is thus seen to be 
capable of great influence from its “meat,’’ but 
it is greater in itself than the medium of 

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its manifestation or the tools with which it 
works. 

This climax of animal life, the human 
species, is alone capable of any true measure of 
self-education and transformation and develop- 
ment to the zenith of excellence or the nadir of 
ignobility. There is something beyond mere 
matter, or animal instinct either, in this 
“life.” It is an intelligent and responsible 
personality, superadded to mere animalism; 
and as such it is limitedly capable, under cer- 
tain conditions, of degeneration or regenera- 
tion. 

This “life’’ of the human species, included an 
ethical sense of justice and injustice, of good and 
bad, of morality and immorality. It discovers 
its own God-conscious capacity, appreciates an 
inherent spirituality, and, at its best, aspires, 
even to know and commune with God. 

Surely, in the mystery and miracle of human 
life, God himself stands ever revealed, and his 
mystery and miracle of creation is continued in 
recreation every day. Our bodies are 
. “temples” of a divine spirit and “if any man 
defile the temple, him will God destroy.” 
Who can consider the wonderful chemical 
transformations and the marvelous magnetic 
variations, in health and disease, as the result 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW “101 


of virtuous or vicious choices and actions, with- 
out acknowledging that the creator is yet in 
vital contact with His creation, and that our 
bodies are “‘The temples of His Holy Spirit?” 

If matter is always and only seized upon and 
organized by anticedent life, then life, in some 
form, must have pre-existed apart from or- 
ganized matter. If somewhere it antedated 
the organized form, the conclusion is clear that 
it may again continue to exist in some form 
after organized matter is dissolved. Though 
life is never manifest apart from organized 
matter, yet this life is more than mere organized 
matter, and the body that forms its visible rep- 
resentation is more than a mere ‘“‘raiment”’ or 
garment of flesh; it is a particularly suited and 
exact corporeal representation of the pre- 
existent, characterizing, yet incorporeal, soul 
life. 

Ultimately, it is in general a perfect, visible 
duplication, or characterization, of the exact in- 
visible life, automatically called into existence. 
In its particular beauty or ugliness, its health or 
disease, its adaptability or inadaptability, this 
body or physical sensorium becomes, at birth 
and also in the constant changes of later life, in 
part at least the reward or punishment—the 
gloom or glory of the nature of the controlling 


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life-principle, and the revealer of the character 
of its choices and actions. This, of course, in- 
cludes the selections and actions of the parent 
life, as well as those of the subject itself. 

To intelligence, the body is always ‘‘more 
than raiment,’’ or a mere covering of flesh. It 
is also a complex automaton, a multiple musical 
instrument, capable of great beauty of appear- 
ance and of unlimited possibilities in harmony, 
volume and varied adjustability; but always 
largely expressing the very character and 
strength of the inward life that pre-arranged 
this appearance. Life is thus always made or 
changed from the inside outwardly and not, as 
mere materialists would intimate, from the 
outside inward. Itis heredity or divine infusion 
first, and environment only in a secondary sense. 
The latter changes of life being largely the result 
of education and choice, whether for better or 
worse. 

If any one is superficial enough to deny this 
bodily revelation of invisible soul character, 
which makes a late-born beauty the result, the 
revelation and the reward of virtue, let him in- 
vestigate the life of the libertine, the drunkard, 
the thief or any of the repugnant derelicts of 
humanity, and discover the time when those 
repulsive features began to appear, and see also 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 103 


if they ever succeeded in picking nature’s 
pockets and getting something for nothing 
from God. 

Ask where they ever plucked the forbidden 
roses of unholy pleasures without being pricked 
by the thorns of diseased, degenerate and re- 
pulsive appearance and co-extensive death. He 
may deny and boast, but, as saith inspiration, 
“The show of his countenance doth witness 
against him,” to that extent that a child and 
a dog even shun instinctively the owner of that 
repulsive and imbruted face. 

Thus Moses recognized the universe as on a 
moral basis. Read Deut. 28. The best modern 
thought has come to the same conclusion. In- 
telligence has ever turned chaos into cosmos. 
The laws of the universe are fundamentally 
spiritual. Nature’s activities are basically 
moral. To the thoughtful, even the earth is 
ethical. 

Time itself is religious, and eventually glori- 
fies God. To the affirmative mind, the basal 
nature of all things is equitable, righteous and 
self-adjusting. Reward and punishment, health 
and disease, success and defeat are vouched for 
in the moral nature of the motive, the true or 
false soul attitude, and they become automatic 
in their action. 


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Time has decreed that dishonesty must be 
dishonored and rectitude rewarded. To the 
subliminal intuitions, the very air is always 
animate with the pulsating life of a just God. 
Consequently, righteousness, in all its activi- 
ties, is defended by every law of nature and 
every vital principle of the universe. Luck is 
lunacy. Love is life, chastity is curative and, 
in general, morality is immunity from dis- 
ease. 

There is even a late born, but certain reac- 
tionary movement in vice, that eventually 
vindicates virtue and always exalts her at last 
to her own. ‘The stars in their courses fight for 
the right. Benevolence is divinely defended. 
Goodness is in league with the beasts of the 
forests, the birds of the air, the stones of the 
field; and the winds and the waters, the seas 
and the seasons are its servants and saviors, 
because of the interposition of the Absolute. 

Intelligence is allied with the springs of life, 
the rules of health, the fountains of youthful ex- 
uberance and the eternal principles of progress. 
Integrity is confederate with the seasons and 
the ages, and with a conscious immortality ex- 
cellence can laugh out of its Eden of innocence 
—its paradise of purity—knowing that it is 
constitutionally immune from ultimate danger 


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and defeat, and that all desirable things will be 
attracted to it, eventually, as their goal. 

Pain is the punishment for broken law; 
morality is the best of medicines. There is a 
bodily religion, and to defile the temple is to 
destroy it. We can’t burn the house and keep 
it. God is not mocked, nor nature fooled; sin 
is suicide; impurity poisons and punishes its 
perpetrators. No drug can keep vice in repair. 
Morality is a biological necessity to longevity, 
and God has well said, “The wicked shall not 
live out half their days.’’ Science proves its 
soundness by discovering “‘a something that 
makes for righteousness in the world.” 

Only badness, including ignorance, need fear; 
guilt alone should tremble. The curse cannot 
stick to purity, justice or truth. If need be, 
trustful innocence, could walk unscathed amid 
infernal fires, like the three virtuous Hebrews in 
the Babylonian furnace. As certain as God is 
true, cruelty will be crushed, benevolence 
blessed, badness blasted, intelligence exalted 
and eventually virtue will be vindicated. 

The belief in this fact is faith—faith in God, 
faith in good, faith in the eventual triumph of 
truth and the ultimate reign of righteousness. 
This is a little hard on the merely sectarian 
theologian, the commercialized quack doctor 


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and the conscienceless medicine vendor; but 
the physician who preaches this scientific gospel 
of prevention, should, as Moses asked for the 
Levites, be honored of all men and supported 
by the state. Surely, God through Moses by 
this law was placing a premium on virtue and a 
tariff on vice, and in so doing he was safe- 
guarding every interest of the race—soul and 
body, for this world and that which is to come; 
and modern science justifies the whole régime. 

The fact that our soundest principles of 
popular democratic governmental reform today 
draws the masses close to the Mosaic theo- 
cratic principles of liberty to do right, equal 
authority and responsibility in justice and ulti- 
mately inalienable ownership of the land and 
sea is a vindication for his theocracy. The 
civil law and the social standards of civiliza- 
tion now being based largely in the Mosaic com- 
mand is a further vindication for the soundness 
of Mosaic thought, or rather of Mosaic inspira- 
tion. 

The religious instinct in the Hebrew nation 
was fed and cultivated as a fundamental, ideal 
necessity; a safeguard to virtue and health; yet 
in all such exercises, basic law and the essential 
nature of things were recognized. ‘The scheme 
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foreshadowed in the striking symbolism of 
temples, altars, substitutional sacrifices, con- 
fessions, washings, etc. 

The priests were largely governmental admin- 
istrators, the public educators, sanitary experts, 
physicians, veterinarians, etc.; and the bodies 
of sacrificial animals, coupled with the tribal 
tithes, provided for their maintenance and 
their families and offices. Thus there was little 
duplication and waste, or additional expense, in 
keeping up this fourfold system of political, 
educational, sanitary and spiritual administra- 
tion. This combination was a display of 
political, educational and religious economy 
well worthy of modern study. Our govern- 
mental expense and excessive taxation today is 
ruinous. 

We have purposely declined to deal generally 
with the subject of geology or astronomy as 
given in the books of Moses, because space for- 
bids a thorough discussion of these vast subjects 
in this book, and because we have dealt with these 
subjects in another book. Yet we are glad to 
note that many modern authorities on these 
great subjects, by a liberal and sensible inter- 
pretation of the terms used by Moses, find 
absolutely nothing contrary to the soundest 
modern science. We show therein many con- 


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firmations of these great subjects as recorded in 
God’s Word. 

Some eminent scholars publish whole volumes 
in justification of scriptural geology and astrono- 
my, and ascribe liberal praise to the scientific 
character of the original account as given in the 
book of Genesis. 

We might even show with much accuracy 
that Moses was the world’s original electrician 
and manufacturer of a novel Leyden jar, or 
unique static dynamo. For who, with the 
knowledge of the construction and phenomena 
of Leyden jars and static electric devices, can 
carefully read the technical description of the 
ark of the covenant given in Exodus 25, with 
its accompanying phenomena, without seeing it 
as a veritable accumulator and generator of 
electro-magnetic power and light. 

Gold is the best and most enduring of con- 
ductive agencies, and the hard and oily accacia 
filler of shittim wood made a good core for the 
inner and outer linings, gold coils or circuit 
coverings. The golden cherubim on the two 
ends of the top, with heads and wings pointing 
toward each other and almost touching, made 
good positive and negative nodes. Around 
these opposite poles formed by these heads and 
wings and between them and the golden plate 


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that formed the mercy seat, an electro-magnetic 
halo of light glowed undimmed through the 
years as “the shekinah of Jehovah,” the proof 
of His presence with His people. 

This was a powerful Leyden jar effect, and 
had all the characteristics of the true, original 
static electric light; and surely the proof of the 
dynamic character of this ark is found in the 
fact that when Uzza thoughtlessly, if not pro- 
fanely, touched the ark he was instantly electro- 
cuted. This dynamo of power was, for safety, 
to be moved or borne by two non-conducting 
wooden staves inserted into four metallic rings 
on the corners of the ark. 

If some of our super-religious friends were to 
object to this explanation as doing away with 
the possibility of the supernatural presence and 
power of God, we may just remind them that, 
as far as science is able to say, electricity in its 
essence and origin is as supernatural and inex- 
plicable today as anything that we know of God 
himself. 

In fact, since all power is of God, it becomes 
expecially true of this mighty, magnetic agency 
whose essence and origin not even an Edison 
can fully explain. If God saw fit to dwell in 
such an agency, or work through such an entity, 
who could object? It also is a trinity in unity, 


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of light, heat and power. And “God is 
light!’ 

All His other activities in the astronomical 
heavens above and in the geological and botanic 
earth beneath, even to the regulation of suns, 
systems, seas, seasons, etc., controlling all vege- 
table and animal life, are conducted largely 
through this mysterious’ electro-magnetic 
power of the sun. 

Nature’s laws are everywhere so prearranged 
on the basis of this constitutional, general 
standard of intelligence and right, of the honor- 
ing of virtue and the dishonoring of vice, that 
intelligent living is called right or religious 
living, and is blessed with immunity from 
ignorance, disease, despair and premature death, 
that come self-originated and self-attracted to 
ignorance and vice; which herein, and for this 
very reason, is called irreligious living. 

In these intelligent principles of virtue and 
equity, health and happiness set up by un- 
changeable law, we discover divine inspiration 
and the pre-scientific thoughtfulness and care of 
the ancient law-giver Moses. We also discover 
his underlying reason for saying that in its 
keeping men would be blessed, and that in its 
breach they would be blasted. 

Since scarcely a hint of this many-sided and 


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advanced scientific education is to be found in 
the records of the schools of that day, we con- 
sider again, that Moses, in addition to his ac- 
quired education, was either inspired of God or 
else he was nearly four thousand years ahead of 
his day in varied scientific research and general 
intelligence. 

The recognition of Life as essentially im- 
materialistic and ethereal, which Moses thrusts 
upon us, perfectly explodes mere materialism, 
with its attendant doctrine of a blind impersonal 
law of evolution, as the origin of all things. The 
Mosaic theory goes on the principle that every 
essential characteristic of the most perfectly 
developed physical specimen pre-existed that 
development in elemental or potential psychic 
embryo. Back of the cell there is a soul. 

The peculiar distinguishing element of vital 
personality and individual identity is always 
traceable back of the remotest corporeal divi- 
sion. The keeping of this vital agent in 
harmony with virtue, equity and intelligence or 
nature’s laws—this is the whole lesson of life, 
and this is the whole aim of the Mosaic regime. 


CHAPTER VII 


THE old materialistic and atheistic ideas of 
years ago, to real scholars are now exploded. 
The brain does not store up knowledge as a bee 
does honey, or a squirrel does nuts, for future 
use. In fact, the brain does not know or think, 
at all, and it has no knowledge, or thought 
either, and memory itself is merely the recalling 
or reacting by the intelligent soul of the facts 
and experiences previously stamped on the sub- 
stance of the brain. 

All thought and intelligence originates in an 
intelligent and responsible soul, while the brain 
is the mere instrument through which it oper- 
ates. It is the medium through which thought 
is manifested, but it is not the originator of the 
thought. The intelligent and responsible soul 
is not a mere function of the brain, but the 
brain is the instrument of the soul. It is the 
responsible soul that thinks, wills, remembers, 
etc., and not the brain itself, which is merely 
the instrument through which it does this. 

The brain, like the rest of the body, is a 
possession of the invisible soul, who is itself the 

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possessor. ‘T'his responsible soul can even edu- 
cate the brain and develop it for good or evil 
functioning; but all education becomes real 
soul-experience—spirit intelligence and not 
merely intellectual lumber stored up in the 
brain. This fact annihilates materialism. 

This soul alone can be educated and expanded 
like a budding flower, or fertilized and tended 
like a growing crop; and its use of the brain 
assures brain development and refinement, so 
that better work can be done through it, not by 
it, in the future. Our brains, like our bodies, 
change substantially perhaps three times each 
year; but this unchanging soul personality 
recognizes its individual and unvarying identity 
through all these changes. Hence itis proper to 
say I am asoul rather than to say I have a soul. 
This soul is an immaterial and invisible personal- 
ity, as mysterious, in a sense, as God himself. 

In Leviticus 10:17, 18, Moses writes, “Thou 
shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: .. . 
but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”’ 
The keeping of this divine commandment is 
the best psychological safeguard of health and 
happiness that modern science has to offer. 
God and science declare that being and well- 
being both have to do with moral rectitude. 
The Bible is up to date! 

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All normal life is self-revealing and self- 
perpetuating. The basic nature, or character of 
the life will automatically pre-arrange the subtle, 
magnetic and rhythmic vibrations that go out 
therefrom to influence other lives, and thereby 
reveal and reproduce themselves. Thus all 
things we say are writing their own life history, 
even to the rocks, trees, rivers, earthquakes, 
seas, seasons, suns and souls of men. 

Control the soul’s moral attitude and you 
shape the emotions; shape the emotions and 
you regulate the thoughts; regulate the 
thoughts and the purposes produced thereby, 
and you pre-arrange the electro-magnetic vi- 
brations that characterize the new tissue build- 
ing and the state of the future mental and 
muscular sensorium. This physical sensorium 
will always reveal its inmost spirit attitudes in 
its external activities, and register its earliest 
moral sanctions even in its most remote physi- 
cal appearances. 

The good or evil of the latest physical results 
will reveal the God or devil of the earliest moral 
choices of the responsible soul and the sover- 
eign will. Scriptural language covers scientific 
facts. The universe is built on the basis of 
justice; and morality and self-acting law even- 
tually makes the man who is true or false to these 


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fundamental principles automatically to bless or 
blight himself, and that in like measure with 
his integrity or falsity. God has well said, 
“Fools because of their folly are afflicted; they 
are brought low and minished.” 

No man can escape his responsibility, and all 
will eventually receive, in their own body and 
soul conditions the reward or punishment of 
their virtuous or vicious attitude toward life 
and law and God and man. There is no 
dodging this eternal law that is always and 
everywhere operative. The ever-acting sub- 
conscious, sympathetic nerve system will always 
rightly register the results in the cell construc- 
tions and combinations. 

God has well said, ‘As a man thinketh in his 
heart so is he.”’ The word ‘‘heart’”’ here means 
the seat of moral emotions and the responsible 
choice. The seat of our emotions and thoughts 
are one. Our loves shape our lives; but our 
responsible, sovereign souls, in the choice of good 
or evil, pre-arrange the affections that pre- 
determine our fate. | 

Life consists largely in vital relationships; in 
attitudes toward moral principle, good or bad. 
With a kindly and righteous attitude toward 
principles and things and God and man, there 
is happiness, hope, health, refreshed animal 


116 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


spirits and abounding life induced. Reverse 
the moral relationship, and unhappiness, self- 
condemnation, depression, worry, judicial blind- 
ness, disease and suffering follow. 

The former is true life; the latter is death, or 
at least less life, abnormal life or mere existence. 
The former right attitude encourages and re- 
freshes the animal soul and strengthens the 
moral spirit, and the blood is sent out from the 
heart pure and refreshed; and the peaceful, 
sympathetic nerve system or subconscious mind 
makes good cell-construction therefrom, or 
builds up healthful tissue. 

The latter or wrong relationship reverses 
this order, crushes the ecstacies of the animal 
soul, stupefies the moral spirit, depresses the 
mind, fills the blood with alkaloid or ptomaine 
poison, and the abdominal brain or involuntary 
sympathetic nerve system can but make a mal- 
formation of cell-construction and tissue ar- 
rangement from such poisoned protoplasm. 

Every wrong soul-attitude automatically cre- 
ates its own punishment, as every right attitude 
similarly and measurably creates its own reward. 
There is a reason for all things as God well 
says, ‘‘The curse causeless cometh not.” 

Under a chemical analysis, every secretion in 
the body of a person in a cheerful, happy and 


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contented state of mind, is found to be largely 
free from destructive toxin. But the same 
chemical test reveals these alkaloid poisons in 
all the secretions of unpoised persons and of 
those in unholy or wrong relations and negative, 
guilty attitudes. Surely, as God said, “‘The 
spirit is life because of righteousness.”” Hate- 
fulness, envy, anger, fear, jealousy, worry, 
anxiety and all negative dispositions are found 
to produce these toxins in the blood, varied 
only as the nature and strength of the emotions 
vary. 

Here is the prime cause of disease and the 
scientific reason why “the soul that sinneth 
shall die’; and that ‘righteousness tendeth to 
life.” The Bible is scientific. Worry upsets 
the stomach; fear disturbs the nervous system 
and causes headache; envy enervates; licen- 
tious desires ruin the health and create a foul 
smell, because of these poisons in the system. 
They are manufactured in the abnormal soul 
attitudes and in the spirit relationships. 

Millions of atoms of this ptomaine are thrown 
off into the blood from the negative and for- 
bidden spirit conditions, and were it not for the 
kindly provision of God in nature, in making 
the heart beat faster to warm the blood and 
open the pores and eject these atoms of poison 


118 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


from the system, they would always prove 
fatal. They often do anyway, because of the 
heart’s inability to throw them off as fast as a 
bad spirit forms them. Some people drop 
dead in a fit of anger, jealousy, fright, worry; 
and, as before stated, a nursing mother in some 
of these moods may involuntarily kill her child 
by the toxinated nourishment she furnishes it. 
Surely, “he that hateth his brother is a 
murderer” and ‘“‘fear hath torment.” 

They used to say our bodies were recreated 
anew every seven years, but now all modern 
schools agree that they are thus renewed in 
about four months. In their renewed state, 
they become quite faithful registers of the 
nature of the responsible upbuilding soul. Our 
bodies today represent the soul of yesterday, and 
the soul of the present will create a similar body 
for its eternal future. Even our clothes, homes, 
tools, shops and general environment have this 
element of automatic revelation and reward or 
punishment in them. They partially reveal the 
pre-existent moral condition, or experience, of 
their characterizing cause. 

Thus, keen minds see the man in his environ- 
ment and the environment in the man. They 
see the cause in the circumstance and the even- 
tual circumstance in the acting cause; and, in 


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their juggling with law, they can rightly estimate 
or conjure the one from the other. Surely, 
the soul and the circumstance are incipiently 
and eventually one. This is the Judgment Day 
principle of equity and of general rewards and 
punishments. All things, like the human 
countenance, are measurably prophetic and 
historic; they tell and foretell their causes and 
consequences. 

The complete life history of everything is 
perfectly represented in its smallest divisions. 
A smile or a frown is an epitome of the life that 
emits it; or an apple or an orange blossom is a 
perfect shorthand description of both the nature 
of the tree and of the character, fragrance and 
flavor of its fruit. This poetic element that 
makes the body generally like the soul, and the 
circumstance like the body, has been recognized 
by poets, prophets, seers and sages of the centu- 
ries and ages. 

Even the Bible, as well as profane history, is 
full of instances to prove this. That the soul 
controls the very circumstances will be denied 
only by very ignorant persons. 

Incomprehensible life lies back of all organic 
phenomena, and selects and arranges the atoms 
~ in cellular structures and combinations so as to 
make a good moral and physical reproduction of 


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the vital character or mental states of each par- 
ticular specimen. Yet life works through law, 
and we can know and control its activities by 
influencing its moral and mental states and 
thereby vary its form and fate. 

Matter is always largely under control of the 
mind; and, as you influence or attract the 
mental activities into new channels you corres- 
pondingly change the cell-construction and the 
functioning of the organism. The brain was 
wisely exalted to the highest position, above all 
the other human faculties, because it was to 
control all below it. 

Experiments in the laboratory prove that a 
change or variation of the influencing agency, or 
environment, of a unicellular organism, varies, 
or co-extensively and co-existently changes, its 
activities, its structure and fits life. The same 
principle applies to all passive multicellular 
organisms, from the molecule even to man; and 
whatever will change his moral attitudes and 
mental activities will correspondingly “‘con- 
vert,”’ or change, his life. Here, then, is the 
source and hope of human improvement in the 
betterment of man’s mental and moral aims 
and choices. ‘This is the gospel privilege. 

Influenced by moral inducements, lofty ideals 
and the rewards of character expansion and ex- 


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altation, the mental activities are changed, and 
thereby character is renewed, transformed, con- 
verted. God’s book speaks of “being renewed 
in the Spirit of your mind.”’ This is scientific. 
. God’s Holy Spirit thus renews men. Varied 
mental influences make a corresponding varia- 
tion in the mental chemistry that affects the 
earliest atomic structure. Back of the atom of 
the atom’s atom, it is true that the electro- 
magnetic chemistry of mysterious life carries 
alike its earliest ionic selections and its latest 
cell constructions and combinations. 

Recognizing this fact, intelligence proposes 
always to shape the final result by controlling 
the incipient cause. With the right kind of 
moral agencies influencing the mind and soul, 
the atomic selection and cellular construction 
and ultimate functioning will be correspond- 
ingly rightand the eventual result controlled and 
assured in the incipient spring. This makes 
true Christian idealism the hope of the race, 
and realization seldom surpasses the previously 
existent idealization. 

As the bodily structures are controlled and 
pre-arranged by the action of the mind and the 
mind itself controlled by the choices or attitudes 
of the majesterial soul, so the environment and 
the most extreme corporeal circumstance is 


122 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


largely controlled and pre-arranged by the body; 
and they differ in each specimen only as the 
specimens themselves differ. The same circum- 
stance is never the same to different individuals, 
nor do they wield the same influence on the 
individuals at all times. 

The influence of moral rectitude, or its op- 
posite in pre-determining the character of our 
cell construction in equal measure controls the 
soul or animal life. Nature is equitable; the 
world is moral and all its parts represent the 
whole, so that the organism that is built up in 
morality is built up in efficiency and perma- 
nency, or in health and longevity. Here is 
the reason of ‘‘the survival of the fittest,’”’ and 
the reason why God says, “Righteousness 
tendeth to life’ and “The wicked shall not 
live but half his days.” 


CHAPTER VIII 


THE human brain and nervous system of 
the body form a subtle, complex musical in- 
strument. Right living tunes the instrument 
and produces true rhythm—the harmony of 
health. Wrong living disarranges it and pro- 
duces the deadly discord of disease. Disease is 
originally faulty vibration, untrue rhythm, like 
the noise of an unbraced drum, while health is 
heavenly harmony and perfect vibration, like a 
well-tuned instrument. 

Science, as well as scripture, declares that 
sin is death and that disease is deviltry, even 
though involuntary. Righteousness is co- 
extensive health. God says, “If thou doest 
not well, sin lieth at the door.”’ Whether the 
agent be acting instinctively or thoughtfully, 
whether life is below the conscious level or 
above it, impression and expression are equal. 
Effects must have corresponding causes. The 
action and the reaction must balance. 

Mental impressions and personal experiences 
that are weak and indistinct, in the very nature 
of things produce but unsatisfactory reactions 

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on the part of the subject. These feeble stimuli 
are incapable in their future recall, of creating 
clear visions, strong convictions and of inciting 
the whole being to intense activity. The 
failure to become thoroughly aroused on re- 
calling a weighty subject may be indirectly 
charged to past inattention, faulty memory, in- 
tellectual slothfulness or limited mental reten- 
tiveness and so forth. But whether one of these, 
or all combined, form the indirect cause, the 
direct cause is a lack of vivid mental images and 
distinct personal experiences in the original 
enactment. 

A purified soul and a divinely perfected body 
may, at the end, prove to be the very “harps” 
of the victorious saints in their resurrection 
glory. God speaks of “reeds shaken by the 
wind ’’—literally, a mouth organ or an organ 
“reed”? breathed upon by the spirit, or in- 
fluenced by the Holy Ghost—ghest, gust, wind, 
or breath. 

Thus, under the divine afflatus the morally 
righteous life makes heavenly music, and ‘there 
is Joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.” 
One stringed instrument in perfect accord with 
another will, under certain conditions, when 
operated, audibly affect the other. Thus, when 
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with Christ, every emotion in the soul of the 
Saviour may find a re-echo in the soul of the 
saint. A divine tranquility and a perfect 
poise form a pearl of great price. Our physi- 
cal bodies and our environment are largely 
moulded thereby. 

The moral contains the mental state, and the 
mental contains, or characterizes, the most ul- 
timate muscular experience. God declared 
that “The trumpet will give no uncertain 
sound.’”’ In Noah’s day, a flood of wickedness 
called for a flood of water. The Sodomites 
burned in their lust, and God burned them with 
fire. The Babylonians heated the furnace for 
Israel’s intrepid trio and were themselves de- 
stroyed thereby. 

It is dangerous business “making it hot’ for 
others. Men reap what they sow and get what 
they give. The Persians who planned the lion’s 
den for Daniel got into that same den them- 
selves. Haman built a gallows for Mordecai 
and was himself hanged thereon. The brothers 
of Joseph sold him into Egypt but the famine 
drove them to Egypt to get the account squared. 
“With whatever measure ye mete, withal it 
shall be measured to you again.” All life 
creates its counterpart in physical environment, 
and this poetic justice is righteous and reveala- 


126 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


tory, as right, of the cause of its existence. God 
is just, and nature is moral and righteous. 

No man can detach sin from its correspond- 
ing sufferings. The suffering declares the sin. 
The very nature of the affliction is often indica- 
tive of the character of its cause, and intelligence 
can see the character of the cause in the nature 
of the effect. 

Though men may suffer without sinning, no 
man can ever sin without suffering; and though 
not all mistakes are sins, yet all sins are mis- 
takes. The suffering is really a beneficient and 
corrective element, that God kindly permits or 
causes to accompany the sin for the actor’s cor- 
rection. 

The heart needs to be broken for sin before it 
is broken from sin. All things are double and 
the physical represents the spiritual, as the 
spiritual contains and characterizes the coming 
physical being. Life grows symmetrical, beauti- 
ful and attractive in measure as it approaches 
the perfect moral standard. 3 

Each beauteous appearance from previously 
existent graces spring, and as sure as the graces 
make the beauties, the disgraces make the re- 
pulsive appearances. All life thus clothes it- 
self in suitable physical representation, and the 
revelation is as honest as it is automatic. 


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Every physical appearance was arranged in 
previously existent spiritual or psychic dis- 
postions. The virtues father the graces, and 
horrible appearances spring from similar dis- 
positions or emotions. 

This will be controverted by the thoughtless 
and the unfortunately homely; but physical 
beauty surely grows in similar but previously 
existent spiritual states, and is a measurably 
accurate register of the characterizing soul- 
cause. God is scientific in declaring that he 
“beautifies the meek with salvation.” 

A virtuous life and a kindly sympathetic dis- 
position is eventually the greatest cosmetic and 
facial attraction. Monstrosities have mon- 
strous causes lying back of them, and each 
disease has a tendency to reveal its origin; 
and, in the control of that origin of disease, the 
cure is suggested. As sure as sin brings suffer- 
ing and wickedness makes woe, a real cure 
demands the rectifying of the cause of the 
trouble. Prevention is the only specific, and 
there is no sure cure but right living. 

Our doctors should study men more than 
medicines, and moral qualities more than chem- 
ical cures. Disassociated from its cause, dis- 
ease itself generally sloughs off and passes 
away; but, while its cause is operative, all 


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effort to cure but produces new or additional 
diseases. 

The vital and chemical forces cannot be 
cheated or forced to make a wrong register. 
Faces seldom lie. God has well said, “‘The 
show of thy countenance doth witness against 
thee.” A youthful countenance is either a 
prophecy or a blank sheet; while an aged face 
is a history, and sometimes a police court 
record. Heaven has well said, “Be sure your 
sin will find you out.” 

Men do not see the change, the spirit trans- 
formation, that hatefulness, envy, anger, etc., 
cause. They only feel the physical shock, the 
chill; but God and angels, perfect intelligences, 
see the death, degredation and dreadful internal 
visages that anger and other harmful emotions 
make, repulsive as a demon, on the faces where 
patient sympathy and holy love should sit. 

The breath is like an open tomb, and all the 
secretions of the blood and brain are turned to 
poison, to wormwood and gall and breed dis- 
ease, decay and further weakness, wickedness 
and death. Love and sympathy are the only 
remedy for this; and health and beauty, song 
and sunshine come to stay where they abide. 
Surely, “God is love’; its very essence and 
embodiment, himself. 


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He who truly loves, in like measure lives; 
and he who hates has death and hell on hand. 
He who thus sins, in like measure suffers; and 
in eating this forbidden fruit, “dying he shall 
die.”” Our cherished emotions cause similar 
mentations, and out of these mentations our 
choices and actions receive their characterizing 
quality; and our nervous system is thereby in- 
clined. Our emotional and affectional desires 
induce corresponding thought. This thought 
inspires similar action. Actions crystalize into 
habit, habits make character and character pre- 
arranges eternal destiny. 

Surely we shape our lives to our liking. Our 
hope lies in the majesterial will power of the 
sovereign soul, to perfectly repudiate and nega- 
tive the wrong emotion on demand; by God’s 
help. Herein is our responsibility. Bliss and 
blight, heaven and hell, are potentially existent 
in this power of choice. 

It takes a great, grand, beautiful spirit to 
duly appreciate a great, grand beautiful truth. 
No wonder, then, that pearls are often passed 
by as pebbles, and that the saviors of the race 
are scoffed at as fools and crucified as trouble- 
makers. “Their good is evil spoken of,’ 
because there is no perfection here. There are 
more fools than philosophers in the world, and 


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even among the philosophers there is more folly 
than wisdom. 

Therefore, it would be easier to endow a fool 
with intelligence than to convince him that he 
had none, for his folly is such a subtle and de- 
ceitful trait that it deceives its very possessors 
into thinking it is itself a specimen of superior 
wisdom. This fact, however, is the fruit and 
proof of the crippled intellect; that should call 
forth pity rather than reproach, equally with a 
broken leg or a blind eye. Where it does not 
do so, we furnish proof that there are almost 
two fools instead of one! 

A good appreciation finds beauty, love and 
virtue everywhere; but the scene partakes of 
the nature of the seer. In all things, the soul 
stamps its own character and value both on the 
scene and the circumstance. Each act reveals 
the actor. Tell me what a man sees and I will 
tell you what heis. Let him describe the world, 
and I will describe him; for love reveals the 
lover, and each thought is an autobiography of 
the thinker. Even in the realm of passion and 
principle, every entity is vital enough to stamp 
indelible traces of its character upon the physi- 
cal environment. 

Man is malleable for a moment, as one has 
said, and the flexible soul is cast in the mould 


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of its own voluntary thought or choice. Black 
goggles put the world in mourning, and “all 
looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.’’ Our lives 
are the sum total of our longings. To each of 
us, the universe is just what we make it; and 
we make it what we are, ourselves. 

Again I say, that virtue and vice are always 
instantaneous in the will, and the purpose to 
be vicious or virtuous, includes the power. The 
will begets the ability, and the ability makes the 
responsibility. He who has decided to be good 
or bad is immediately as good or bad as his 
choice. Here is always the throne of authority, 
the seat of praise or blame. The majesterial 
will must decide! The sovereign soul, in the 
exercise of its elective function, can make life 
glorious or grovelling. If we set our responsible 
wills right, our emotional and affectional 
natures soon will be providentially whipped into 
line. Our eternal destiny is the harvest of 
personal choice. 

The circumstances are but the shadow of the 
soul; and man is what he thinks, rather than 
as he thinks he is. All that I think, see, say or 
do, is tinctured by what I feel or choose. God 
declares a universal truth in the words, ‘‘to the 
pure all things are pure.” This expresses a 
principle in life that is eternally operative in all 


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things. Reasoning from analogy, the reverse 
becomes true where the conditions are reversed; 
and, consequently, to the vile, all things are vile. 

Weall know that to a virtuous man all women 
are virtuous, and to a libertine all women are 
immoral; so that, influenced by his delusion 
they are not safe in his presence. To the honest, 
all people seem honest; and to the dishonest 
man, the world is as bad as he. He who is 
criminal, considers he is living in a world of 
criminals. This is all he knows. His emotions 
and thoughts are colored by the dye of his 
spirit. We set a value on things according to 
our elated or depressed feelings. 

The character of the philosopher is revealed 
in the nature of his philosophy. The reported 
report, reports the reporter so accurately that 
the workman is seen in his works. Who has 
failed to detect a reminiscence of neglect and 
oversight in all the work of the careless novice? 
And a miracle of thoughtfulness, care and tech- 
nical skill is seen in the finished production of © 
the conscientious adept. 

Every influence and agency radiated from our 
lives is a revelation of our lives, and the nature 
and extent of the influence radiated discloses 
the character and strength of the vital radiator. 
The nature ascribed to Deity reveals the real 


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character of the worshiper himself; so that the 
infidel reversal of the old aphorism is really true, 
and a benignant deity is the sublimest concep- 
tion of man, fully as much as “an honest man 
is the noblest work of God.” 

No one is as attractive and beautiful as the 
lover sees him to be; and no one as repugnant 
as the hater describes him. All men are more 
or less duped by their emotions and preferences. 
As one has said, we lend the charm or aversion 
that we feel to all things we see and hear, and 
then compliment or condemn ourselves by 
adoring or opposing what we, ourselves, largely 
have created in our imagination. God created 
all things “in his own image’; and we, as his 
children continue the tendency and infuse our 
dispositional ‘‘image and likeness” into all our 
works. 

No man is as black as his enemies paint him, 
and none are as white as their friends portray 
them. Public men’s enemies tell black lies 
about them while they are alive, and their 
friends tell white lies about them when they are 
dead. Between the two the truth is told. It 
takes time and these two, to reveal the real facts 
to posterity. 

The statue proves to be a true bust of the 
sculptor, in spite of himself: and intelligence, in 


134 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


a close scrutiny, discovers that the painting 
paints the painter today as fully as the painter 
painted the painting yesterday. 

Nature’s necromancy makes him write the 
truest poetry whose life is the truest poem; and 
in every sphere of activity he makes the poorest 
productions who is himself the poorest pro- 
duction. The builder himself is being built by 
the building as much as the building is being 
built by the builder. 

All things are disciplinary and educational to 
all men. God appointed each of us to a hard 
place; because, in a sense, we are each a hard 
case; and while the hard case is correcting the 
hard place, the hard place is equally correcting 
the hard case. By the time the hard place will 
have educated the hard case, the hard case may 
have finished the hard place. Thus God is 
developing the workman with his work; and 
both, generally, get through together. The 
dimensions of the architecture reveal the propor- 
tions of the architect himself. 

The scene is a photographer of the seer, and 
in the nature of the tale the teller’s own nature 
is told. God asks, “What seest thou?” Say 
what you see and we’ll see what you say; and 
the seer will be seen in the sight. Our friends 
are nature’s reward and compliment to our 


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virtues; and our enemies are the shame and 
the punishment that she administers to our 
vices, or to our emotional attitude toward them 
when they were but indifferent people. 

The character that we ascribe to others 
generally reveals our own. There is always a 
bad man or a bad woman at one end of every 
bad tale; but it is more apt to be at the butt 
end than at the nozzle. It is more apt to bea 
domestic than a foreign production. 

Do we not all discover the musician in the 
music, and see the soul of the singer in the 
sweetness of the song? Though not compre- 
hended by unphilosophic people, this is the 
truest attraction of music. It is the lecturer 
rather than the lecture that influences the 
hearer, and what he is speaks louder than what | 
he says. 

A true sermon is the pastor’s soul, and the 
parish reveals the preacher. We instinctively 
ascribe to the possessor a value commensurate 
with the value of his possessions. Our instincts 
are truer than our reason. The lair reveals the 
lion, and the nest describes the bird. “Every 
seed brings forth according to its kind.” 

Who does not discover the instinctive nature 
of the clam in the shell of the clam, and the 
peculiar construction of the snail or tortoise in 


136 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


their respective shells? The drunkard’s home 
looks like a drunkard’s home, and it derives its 
looks from its lord. 

The thrifty, virtuous man’s residence is the 
complement of his character; and in each the 
other is seen. Heathen physical conditions are 
created by pre-existent heathen; spirtual ex- 
periences and Christian communities comple- 
ment the Christian character. The squalor in 
any community is made by the squalid inhabit- 
ants, and we all receive our wages from nature 
according to our work. , 

Our loves are our lives in embryo, for love 
loves what its lover loves. As the light paints 
the landscape so our lives make our loves, and 
our loves make our lovers and our lovers re- 
influence and shape our lives; so that, loving as 
we live and then fully living as we love, our 
friends and choices always reveal our real, true 
selves. This again is the principle of the Judg- 
ment Day record of infallible self-registration 
that will be seen when the “books are opened” 
at the last day. Surely, we have our fate in 
our own fingers, and we temper our luck to 
our liking. 

Heaven and hell are logical, both here and 
hereafter; and in the nature of the bliss or blight 
they bestow, is the extent of the inherently 


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blessed or blasted state of the recipient seen. 
God is philosophic and scientific in declaring 
that ‘‘As one star differs from another star in 
glory, so shall it be in the resurrcetion of the 
just.” He might have added, reasoning from 
analogy, ‘‘As one wandering star differs from 
another wandering star in the blackness of dark- 
ness forever, so shall it be in the resurrection of 
the unjust.” 

All comes from the invisible to the visible, 
and from the inside to the outside, rather than 
the reverse. Nature is a scientific conjurer. 
The late-born realizations once were the early 
idealizations, and the soul of today will be the 
body of tomorrow. 

The hope of the detective lies in the fact that 
folly betrays the fool. Life is a shorthand lexi- 
cographer, a fact biographer. 

As Emerson says, “She is a busybody, a 
seeress, a prophetic element, a fortune teller, a 
revealer of secrets, a blab.” She is an om- 
niscient juggler with hidden things; and her 
suggestive stage whispers soon reverberate 
throughout the spheres. 

Every emotion, thought, choice and action 
has in it an element of this self-registration and 
revelation that cannot be dodged. An ever- 
active, Argus-eyed and magic agency in life 


138 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


chronicles externally in shorthand the internal 
moral nature of every creature, thought or 
thing. This wizard element pencils, as it passes, 
the hieroglyphic history of the ethical universe 
corporeally, and intelligence can read this physi- 
cal record and be warned. ‘The plastic earth is 
refashioned in the shape of our individual 
emotions every hour to each of us. 

He who brings no friendship finds no friends, 
and he who sees no beauty in the world feels no 
beauty in his own breast. Misanthropy is mad- 
ness. Philanthropy is philosophy spelled 
another way. Pessimism is pestilent. Hope- 
fulness is health, happiness and heaven. What 
men have they give, and what they sow they 
reap. The fruit reveals and classifies the tree. 
The stream declares the fountain. The soul 
reveals its nature by its intuitive selections and 
then grows more deeply moulded by the influ- 
ence of the choice. We smile at the smiling 
stranger and frown at the frowning one, and 
we enlarge our power to smile or frown by so 
doing. Nature’s usage of men generally is the 
exact echo of their usage of her. 


The painting lies on the landscape, 
And waits the artist’s eye; 

The statue smiles from the block of stone 
When the sculptor passes by; 


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And when Apollo treads the beach, 
The waves sing lullaby. 

The observer is creator 
To the scene he would reveal. 

The tale each tells is his life tale 
And depicts its woe or weal. 

The things we do and see and say 
Show just what we are and feel. 


CHAPTER IX 


MOSES recognized the fact that every phase 
of physical welfare was pre-arranged in the 
moral experiences and attitudes of the actors, 
and all human history is but a comment on that 
fact. Read Deut. 5:29. “It will be well with 
men and with their children forever only in 
measure as they keep all God’s commandments 
always.” And they can do that only as they 
seek and obtain from God a heart divinely pre- 
disposed and empowered to keep those com- 
mandments. 

Men act as they think, and they think as 
they feel, and they feel as they permit God or 
the devil, in good or evil, to suggestively con- 
trol their affections and choices. Action is the 
revelation of character, and character is the 
embodiment of moral emotion and exalted pur- 
pose. 

The scientific soundness and morality of 
Moses, in general and the inspiration and con- 
sequent authority of the Pentatuch are infer- 
entially upheld by all subsequent scriptural 
writers. And though some critics declare that 

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Jesus criticized Moses, they are evidently mis- 
taken, as it was but the popular, though errone- 
ous, interpretation of Moses that he criticized. 
He declared emphatically that he, “came not 
to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfil,” 
and he added, “Till heaven and earth pass, one 
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
law, till all be fulfilled.” 3 

If we turn even to the purely symbolical 
portions of the law, we shall find a wealth of 
interesting instruction and _ carefully-chosen 
illustrative imagery that reaches the very zenith 
of poetic fancy and prophetic flight. We will 
look at a few examples which are called “the 
shadow of good things to come,’”’ of which we 
are to receive the real substance in Christian 
experience. 

The Hebrew tabernacle, besides the outer or 
Gentile court, was divided into two parts, called 
the holy and the most holy places. These repre- 
sented a merely justified and a truly sanctified 
experience; or that of a novice and an adept in 
religion. Both places were called holy, as God 
will not recognize any religion but a holy re- 
ligion; and all true religion is holy, even in its 
incipiency. 

Moses preached the gospel as well as Matthew 
or John, and to those well versed in the Old 


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Testament types “the gospel according to 
Moses’ is the first of the gospels. As Augustine 
said, “The New Testament is in the Old con- 
cealed; the Old Testament is in the New re- 
vealed.”? The brazen altar, or altar of sacrifice, 
was the vital center of the whole Mosaic system. 
All priestly ministrations and every act of per- 
sonal worship were vitally connected with it. 

The word “altar” signifies ‘‘the place of 
death,” blood-shedding or expiation. It was 
said of this brazen altar, Ex. 40:6, “And thou 
shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before 
the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the con- 
gregation.”’ This reveals the fact that, in God’s 
mind, propitiation for sins precedes real en- 
trance into God’s conscious presence or house. 

There was no other way into the sanctuary 
but by this altar of sacrifice. Well did Jesus, 
as God’s great sin offering, say, ‘‘I am the way,” 
“Iam the door,” etc. Thus, the very location 
of this altar was of the greatest consequence, in 
illustrating divine truth. It was five cubits 
broad each way and three cubits high. 

There was a great horn on each corner, fitted 
to the projecting corner post. There was a grate 
or fireplace on the inside of this altar, just half 
way up, which made this fire of sacrifices just 
level with the mercy seat in the holy of holies. 


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Expiation and mercy are supplementary and 
complementary to each other. 

The table of shew bread was also of the same 
height. Christ’s sacrifice for us, our union and 
communion with him, and our ‘‘feeding of the 
multitudes with the unleavened bread of sin- 
cerity and truth,” are all of a piece, and all 
based in Christ’s atoning sacrifice. 

The whole burnt offering was consumed upon 
this brazen altar in the court of the taber- 
nacle. The sin offering proper was burned 
“without the camp.” The whole burnt offering 
was a type of that work of Christ which con- 
sisted in his giving up of his whole being to God, 
an unceasing offering, moment by moment, of 
all his faculties and affections. He thus let ‘‘the 
zeal of God’s house’ consume him, in the burn- 
ing of a holy spirit fire. 

The sin offering represents his propitiatory 
work on the great day of atonement, in the 
bearing of the curse of sin for his people and also 
in his “dying without the camp,” apparently an 
outcast from both God and his people. He must 
die on a tree, or else we must feel the curse of sin 
for a broken law. It was written in the law, 
“Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” 
Deut. 21:28; Gal. 3:18. Paul says in this 
latter verse, “Christ hath redeemed us from the 


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curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for 
it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth 
on a tree.”’ Since Jesus was sinless, this curse 
was endured for us, and now we are exempt. 

No other kind of death could atone for our 
sins, according to the law, as no other kind of 
death was especially under the curse of the law; 
and consequently none other could take our 
place for a breach of that law of which it was 
said, “Cursed is every man that continueth not 
in all the works of the law, to do them.”” Thank 
God, there was one who was willing to die in our 
stead, that we might live in his stead. A sin 
offering, burned ‘‘ without the camp’’—an out- 
cast, deserted of all. Well does the apostle say, 
“Let us go forth to him without the camp, 
bearing his reproach.” 

As the priestly worshipers entered the holy 
place, there appeared a great laver, which in its 
reconstruction in the temple, was described by 
Solomon, the king, as a brazen sea. It was ten 
cubits broad and placed on the backs of twelve 
oxen. These oxen were organized into a com- 
pact body; three looked north, three south, 
three east and three west. This molten sea, 
or giant laver, was filled with water; and the 
official worshipers were commanded to wash 
their hands and feet in this cleansing fluid, “that 


OF THE MOSAIC LAW 145 


they die not.” This is a very significant figure. 
Solomon has but amplified Moses’ edict here. 
These twelve oxen represent the twelve tribes 
of Israel in their tribal organization, and reveal 
their evangelistic world-outlook—north, south, 
east and west. 

The fact that the cleansing laver rested 
originally on its own base called a foot, but 
eventually rested equally on the back of each 
ox, suggests church unity and reveals the fact 
that each tribe in God’s Israel is to bear an 
equal share of the burden and carry his full 
quota of the responsibility for the perpetuation 
of the mystical cleansing institution of the 
church. 

That all must wash in this laver or die, fore- 
shadows the gospel fact that each must volun- 
tarily wash his soul-life in the mystic, yet effi- 
cacious waters of life or die to hope in the 
future. The hands and feet of the worshiper 
represented his works and ways, or his doings 
and goings, in all of which he needs the Lord’s 
cleansing. 

The laver was made from the material of the 
burnished brass mirrors of the women wor- 
shipers. It stood just outside the door of the 
tabernacle and after passing the altar of sacrifice. 
These Israelitish priests represent God’s people 

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today as “a nation of priests and kings unto 
God.” The fact that they had to wash in 
these “‘holy waters’ each time they entered, 
after they had offered sacrifice is very significant. 
Water, as nature’s great cleansing and refresh- 
ing agency, is a type of the sanctifying power of 
the Holy Spirit and his grace to souls. 

Men need soul-cleansing even after they have 
found an acceptable sacrifice. ‘Then those old 
“mirrors,” that they used, to reveal themselves, 
will now reveal Christ, on that altar of sacrifice 
just beyond this cleansing laver. Sanctification 
is always a second work of grace, following the 
justification that is found at the altar of sacri- 
fice. 

On the north side of this evangelistic symbol, 
or tableau, and directly opposite the candle- 
stick, there appeared an equally interesting 
missionary representation, called the “‘table of 
shewbread.” It consisted of a gold-covered 
table, upon which rested twelve loaves of un- 
leavened bread, which were replaced fresh every 
day. 

The Scriptures declare that the unleavened 
bread symbolizes “sincerity and truth.” As 
the body lives on bread, so the soul subsists on 
sincerity and truth, as the very essence of 
true Christianity. 


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This figure represents a loaf of life for every 
tribe outside the church, from every tribe inside 
the church. It places a responsibility for the 
evangelization of every heathen on every 
Christian. Again the twelve loaves on one 
table represent unity in worship and organized 
and united missionary effort. The gold in- 
dicates the purity and freedom from dross, or 
selfishness, that characterizes all true missionary 
effort. 

What these loaves of unleavened bread were 
to the Israelitish priests, Christ always is to his 
people; i. e., a complete loaf of life to each and 
all. The pure frankincense that was always laid 
on this bread, was, once each week, burned on 
the golden altar. This was called the bread of 
“presence” or “bread of face.’”’ Christ’s pres- 
ence feeds the soul and the fed soul feeds others. 
Every evangelistic effort thus inspired of God, is 
a “sweet memorial” before him, as this in- 
cense was called. Lev. 24:7. 

Jesus, who called himself “the true bread of 
life,” is here set forth as the soul-food of his 
people. No one but holy priests could eat 
thereof, and that only in God’s holy house. Of 
course, all God’s true people are today con- 
sidered holy, and his conscious presence makes 
his house anywhere in his universe. His peo- 


148 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


ple are “a nation of kings and priests unto 
God.” 

Directly in front, on the south side of the 
room, a third emblematical figure appeared. It 
was a huge seven-branched golden candlestick. 
It strikingly imaged forth the whole character 
of the church. A talent of gold ($27,375) was 
used in its construction. The gold indicates the 
real, drossless value of true religion. The light 
represents God, who is light; Christ, the Light 
of the World, and also the beneficence of reli- 
gion. Jesus said, ‘‘ Let your light so shine before 
men, that they may behold your good works 
and glorify your father who is in heaven.” 

The oil that fed the flame of that candle, 
portrays the Holy Spirit, whose vital anointing 
alone makes the church luminous. Just what 
the light can consume will the wick attract. 
It cannot hoard. We need, “this day our 
daily bread.” The light of the lamp depended 
on the supply of oil. So the influence of the 
church depends on her vital unity with the 
“spirit of God,’ symbolized by oil. 

The wick that formed the medium for con- 
veying oil to the flame sets forth the real faith 
that brings the love-life of God for the soul’s 
vital consumption. The central shaft of that 
candlestick represented Christ, the prophet that 


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Moses promised in Deut. 18:15, 19, who is said 
to “dwell in the midst of the seven golden 
candlesticks.”” The other six branches repre- 
sent the people of the church in general, who 
are the“branches” of that “true vine” of 
which Christ called himself the trunk. 

Six is the imperfect number in the Scriptures. 
Triple-six is the number of the anti-Christ, the 
Apollyon, or Destroyer, of the last days. In 
the numerical science of the Bible (see Moses’ 
book, Numbers) seven is the perfect number. 
It is a combination of three, the divine number, 
added to four, the human number. It means 
the unity of divinity and humanity in a glorious 
Christianity. Jesus the perfect, seven-fold, 
eternal high priest, was perfectly human and 
perfectly divine, the seven-fold being. 

Because he, the son of God became human, 
we, the sons of men may become divine; and 
because he left heaven and came to earth, we 
may some day leave earth and go to heaven. 
Because he went to the cross for us, we may go 
to the throne with him. Because he took our 
vices on himself and died the kind of death 
that we deserved to die, we, each may take his 
virtues, on us, and live the kind of life that he 
deserved to live. Surely, he is, ‘‘the Lamb of 
God that taketh away the sin of the world.” 


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We find our perfection only in him, as the 
six branches were mortised into the central 
shaft and thereby formed seven—the perfect 
number. Twelve, in the Scriptures, is the fruit- 
bearing number, and is derived from four—the 
human number multiplied by three, the divine 
number. It represents humanity multiplied by 
divinity. All things in the number seven are 
represented as in some manner perfect, and the 
number twelve always denotes the fruitfulness 
of God’s blessing multiplying humanity. 

All the utensils of the temple being of gold 
indicate the precious value and worth of true 
religion, which needs guarding like golden 
treasures. The fact that this lamp was to 
shine continually shadows forth the truth that 
God’s church is to be always luminous in good 
works. 

The golden altar, or altar of incense, was 
of special significance as symbolizing several im- 
portant spiritual facts. It was a cubit wide, 
and two cubits high. It was covered all over 
with plate gold, and a crown of gold surrounded 
the top; and four strong horns extending up- 
ward, covered also with gold, ornamented the 
corners. 

This golden altar stood at the entrance to 
the holy of holies, just outside the “vail,” yet 


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so far inside the corridor to this “most holy 
place,” that some have taken the description of 
its position to be really inside the most holy or 
holy of holies. 

Every night, at lamp-lighting time, Aaron or 
one of his sons as the acting high priest, was to 
burn sweet incense upon this golden altar, at 
this door of God’s own dwelling place. This 
altar, with its fragrant fire at the door of the 
holy of holies, represents Christ as the saints 
object of adoration, worship and prayer—the 
inspiring cause of praise, as a daily sacrifice to 
God on the part of adult worshipers or those of 
sanctified experience. 

One must pass this fragrant altar and know 
Christ in his beauty, to enter the holy of 
holies, just as we today need to be filled with 
the spirit of true worship and thanksgiving ere 
we can pass into the Shekinah light of God’s 
conscious presence and meet him face to face 
at the mercy seat. 

Once each year, on the “great day of atone- 
ment,” the high priest made an atonement of 
blood upon the horns of this altar; also, before 
entering into the holy of holies. Then, of the 
same blood of the sin offering, he sprinkled the 
mercy seat and the vail. This was the same 
blood of the sin offering which had been 


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previously placed on the horns of the brazen 
altar. Christ’s sacrifice for sin prepares the way 
to the mercy seat and even into the holy of 
holies for his people; and its efficacy goes all 
the distance of human experience, opening a 
way for the true worshiper right into the very 
presence of God. 

The sin offering on the brazen altar of early 
experience leads past the golden altar of later 
adoration and the sweet fire of love and thanks- 
giving, right up to the mercy seat and the 
Shekinah of God’s presence. All depends on 
him who was ‘The Lamb of God that taketh 
away the sin of the world.” 

It was significant that the brazen altar or 
offering as a sacrifice for a sin, stood at the very 
door of the holy place, and this golden altar 
of sweet burning incense, stood at the door of 
the holy of holies. There is no way into real 
acquaintance with God, or acceptance at his 
hand, but by way of the atonement. 

A propitiation for sin must be found, and in 
Christ alone is such a propitiation provided for 
either Jew or Gentiles. This entire dependence 
on the blood of sacrifice, or propitiation for sin, 
must be recognized all the way through human 
experiences, even amid the highest ecstacies of 
spiritual unity with God obtainable here. The 


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altar of incense is ever intimately connected with 
the brazen altar of sacrifice. In fact, the very 
coals that kindled the fire on the golden altar 
of incense were always taken from the brazen 
altar of sacrifice in the court. 

Praise, adoration and sweet and acceptable 
thanksgiving are born of a consciousness of sins 
forgiven and a personal realization of atonement 
made. Each ingredient composing the incense 
thus burned was to be of “equal weight” with 
the others, and all “tempered together”’ and 
“most holy.” 

These pungent, fragrant spices represent the 
very graces and perfections of character found 
in Christ, the sinless and perfect “‘propitiation 
for the sins of his people,” as described in the 
fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. This truth illus- 
trates the idea of the equality, or the perfect- 
ness, of grace in Christ, as God’s atoning sacri- 
fice. Mercy does not over-balance justice; nor 
does love do away with truth, etc. All the 
graces and perfections are “equal’’ in him, and 
all are ‘‘tempered together” and ‘‘most holy.” 
Thank God for such a divine and perfect 
Saviour. 

If we now pass on to the “most holy place,”’ 
within the vail, we shall still find many interest- 
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here consisted in one complex article—a box 
called the ark of the covenant. It was about 
twenty inches high and equally wide and had 
a length about twice the width. It was covered, 
both within and without, with beaten gold plate, 
and a large golden bird or cherub sat on each end 
of the cover, each looking into the other’s face. 
The cover under the wings and extended heads 
of the birds was called ‘the mercy seat,” and 
there a supernatural glow, as of static, electro- 
magnetic light, was said to blaze undimmed 
through the years. This was called the 
“‘Shekinah”’ of Jehovah. 

Within this ark, the two tables of stone con- 
taining the Ten Commandments were lodged. 
Also the golden pot of manna and Aaron’s rod 
were there. These represent the law and the 
gospel. This is all Christian experience fore- 
shadowed. In the most holy of possible experi- 
ences the heart is made an “‘ark of a covenant’’; 
and all truly holy souls have “covenanted”’ 
with God. 

The commands of God, written on both 
tables and containing our responsibilities to 
both God and man, are in the very heart of 
advanced worshipers, or spirit-filled Christians. 
God has said, ‘“‘I will put my law in their inward 
parts and write it in their hearts.” Jer. 31: 33, 


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II Cor. 3:3, etc. This gracious transformation 
purifies their hearts and properly predisposes 
them. All Christians of this advanced rank 
have heavenly and supernatural light, a divine 
“Shekinah.”’ All of these have a ‘‘mercy seat,’’ 
where this holy light shines. All havea “pot of 
manna,” or heavenly bread of light and truth, 
on which the soul feeds. 

All have the shepherd’s staff of divine truth. 
All Moses’ miracles were wrought by the use of 
this staff, as all great Christian works are per- 
formed through the believing use of “The 
Word of God.”’ God has said, “I will meet 
you at the mercy seat.’”’ A mercy seat is very 
significant. One of the beatitudes reads, 
“Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain 
mercy.” 

Here, where the soul is forgiving and “merci- 
ful” to all, and where it is in “‘covenant”’ with 
God, and whence it is blest with supernatural 
light and keeps the commandments stamped on 
the mind and written in the heart, and where 
it finds duty sweet and wholesome as a pot of 
heavenly manna—here, and only in this “‘holy 
of holies,” is the soul made pure and predisposed 
to holiness, like God himself; then it can look 
its God in the face, in purity of purpose, across 
the mercy seat. 


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In these two birds, or winged existences, the 
soul of the Saviour and the soul of the purified 
sinner are figuratively represented as looking 
full into each other’s face, over the ark of the 
covenant and the mercy seat. If this is thought 
by some to declare too much, I say it is written, 
“Let this mind be in you which was also in 
Christ Jesus, who thought it not robbery to be 
equal with God”; and again, “Be ye holy for I 
am holy’; and again, “As I am, so are ye in 
this world.”’ God is still making man “‘in his 
image and likeness.”’ 

If we examine the official robes of the Jewish 
priests who ministered in this place, we shall 
again find the essentials of the whole gospel set 
forth in suitable symbols. The high priest, who 
represented Jesus the Saviour, carried in his 
breastplate twelve different costly stones, each 
one containing the engraved name of one of 
the tribes of Israel. Thus Jesus, the Messiah, 
as he ministers in the most holy place, carries 
the names of all the true Israel on his breast. 
He recognizes his people as real jewels. 

Because he bore our names in death, we can 
bear his name in life; and because he suffered 
in death as we deserved to suffer, we are privi- 
leged to rejoice, in life, as he deserved to rejoice. 
Here is how we have the right to come to the 


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throne, “in his name,” because he went to 
the cross in ours. When the punishments for 
vice were being meted out, Jesus as our true 
high priest, in our name, stepped into the gap 
and received the blow that we deserved. But 
at the last, when the rewards for virtue are to 
be given out, we come in his name to receive 
the rewards that he really deserved. 

Surely, he died in our stead that we might 
live in his. He made himself “a scapegoat,’ 
as the “law” said, and died as we deserved to 
die. He made himself the embodiment of our 
sins and went into the presence of God thus for 
us. His father’s frown at that sin, broke the 
heart of Christ, and he yielded up the spirit 
crying, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou 
forsaken me?” “He was smitten of God and 
afflicted; but he was wounded for our transgres- 
sions, the chastisement of our peace was upon 
him and by his stripes we are healed.” 

Why did God forsake him? This is the most 
momentous question of earth. The answer to 
this question, intelligently given, will yet re- 
edenize a sinful world. It will reveal Jesus as a 
real Saviour, a substitute and propitiation for 
our sins; and all who accept him are reckoned 
as dead to sin in him. 

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shoulder, and upon each was engraved the name 
of one of the tribes of Israel. This represents 
the fact that our High Priest is to carry both us 
and our responsibilities and burdens on his 
broad shoulders. Around the skirt of that high 
priest’s robe were hung alternately twelve 
golden bells and twelve artificial pome- 
granates. The priest was ordered to move 
his skirts and ‘‘keep these bells ringing, lest 
he die.” 

These bells represent the clear, ringing testi- 
mony of Christians, and the pomegranates rep- 
resent their fruitfulness of life. ‘Testimony first 
and fruit following. ‘A bell and a pomegranate. 
A bell and a pomegranate.”’ ‘‘ Keep your bells 
ringing lest ye die.’”’ An individual without 
personal experience and testimony soon dies, 
spiritually. 

All this was surely ‘“‘the shadow of good 
things to come,” as God has said, of which we 
have the real substance in the gospel. These 
are but a few of the most prominent symbols in 
connection with the Mosaic law, but all its 
details are equally instructive and interesting 
to intelligence. 

Though on a strictly scientific base, Judaism 
was nevertheless an interesting emblematic 
kindergarten, of which we have the college 


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course of actual experience in the higher grades 
of the gospel. 

We will, by special request look at but one 
more group of symbols. Leprosy in the Bible is 
made the physical type of sin. Like sin, it is 
humanly incurable, transmittable, quarantine- 
able, fatal, and appears in divers forms. Both 
contagions are equally repulsive. Read Leviti- 
cus, chapter 14. 

The man desiring to be healed of the soul- 
leprosy of sin was to bring a blemishless male 
lamb, the first-born of its mother, to the temple 
door. He was to lay his hand on the head of 
that lamb and confess his sin over onto the head 
of that substitute. It was then to be killed by 
the priest, and the priest was to fill the palm of 
his left hand with the blood. He was next to 
place the forefinger of his right hand in that 
blood and then carry some of the blood to the 
tip of the right ear, the thumb of the right 
hand and the great toe of the right foot, of him 
that was to be healed. 

This blemishless, spotless, male lamb repre- 
sents Jesus, the spotless and blemishless ‘“ Lamb 
of God that taketh away the sins of the world.” 
We need to confess our sins with a hand of faith 
placed on him, and thus make him our substi- 
tute. We need the cleansing of the blood by 


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faith. The great toe of our right foot is the 
furthest extension of our bodies in walking, and 
represents the fact that in all our walks of life 
we need the Saviour. 

The thumb constitutes men different from all 
other animals. Because of a thumb, in con- 
tradistinction from a paw, claw, fin, wing, hoof, 
flipper, etc., man can place his hand in several 
thousand different positions. It characterizes 
his works; and in all our works as well as our 
walks in life, we need the Saviour. 

All we ever knew we learned through our ears, 
and so we need the ear cleansed by the blood, 
that in all our educational developments we 
may have the Lord. It was the right toe, the 
right ear and the right thumb. God’s blessing 
always comes in the right way. 

After this cleansing by the blood of the Lamb, 
some of the anointing oil of the temple was to be 
similarly applied to the ear, thumb and toe, “‘in 
the place of the blood.”’ These two applications 
represent the double cure again, of justification 
and sanctification, or “‘the washing of regenera- 
tion and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.” 

If the plague of leprosy had actually gotten 
into the house and was eating away the fiber of 
the timbers or the crystals of the rocks, as it 
did in some instances, there was a further in- 


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teresting cleansing prescribed for it. No mere 
symbol could avail here, but actual scientific 
sanitation had to be coupled with the religious 
activities. That house represented our bodies 
as temples of the Holy Ghost. 

The leprosy therein represented those vicious 
and harmful physical and diseased activities in- 
duced by sin. The affected stones and timbers 
were to be removed and replaced by new ones, 
representing practical repentance and the form- 
ing of new, virtuous habits. The plaster was all 
to be scraped off the house, and it was to be re- 
plastered from cellar to garret. This new, in- 
ternal purity represented the acquiring of new, 
pure, internal experiences, after getting rid of 
old sinful practices and defiled professions. 

If the contagion broke out again after this 
cleansing, the whole house was to be broken 
down and all its material, stones, timbers, 
mortar, etc., were, for safety, to be dumped 
into ‘‘an unclean place without the city.” 
This fact was to represent the dangerous 
character of apostacy and general backsliding. 
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”’ Gehenna, 
or the place of the lost, is pointed out as this 
“unclean place without the city.” It repre- 
sents the scrap heap of eternity; the dumping- 
ground of the devil. God says of heaven, 

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“Without are dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, 
adulterers and whosoever loveth and maketh a 
lie.’ And, again, ‘No unclean thing shall 
enter therein.” 

The symbolic cleansing for this healing 
brought out a new feature of the gospel, and its 
practical efficiency. ‘Two doves were to be 
taken, representing the soul of the sinner and 
the soul of the Saviour. The one was to be killed 
“in an earthen vessel over a running stream.” 
The other was to be sprinkled with the blood of 
its dead companion and then immersed in the 
water of the running stream, and then it was to 
be emancipated in ‘“‘the open field,” by the 
priest. This fully sets forth the substitutionary 
character of Christ in the atonement, as de- 
scribed above. The souls of men are winged ex- 
istences, like birds. One, as the Saviour dies 
that the other, as a redeemed sinner, may live 
and some day fly away to heaven. 

“The earthen vessel” shadows forth the 
human body.of Jesus. It is written, “A body 
hast thou prepared for me.” “The running 
stream” represents the stream of God’s provi- 
dential grace that always underlies all gospel 
events. The blood and water again sets forth 
the double cure, as referred to above. Blood 
particularly represents life, and water repre- 


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sents cleansing, and blood always is referred to 
first and water next. Sinful man needs divine 
life first, and cleansing from native defilement 
afterwards. From the side of Calvary’s victim 
was said to issue “‘blood and water.” 

“The hyssop branches, or bitter herbs,’ 
were here used to represent the bitter experiences 
of repentance that always accompany salvation. 
The blood of the lamb at the exodus was applied 
by “‘hyssop branches.”’ Hyssop is a bitter 
purgative. The scarlet wool used in this 
cleansing, symbolizes the abnormal life of the 
sinner. Man’s sins are said to be “crimson 
and scarlet.” There are white sheep and black 
sheep, but in the animal world there are no 
“crimson” sheep. Sin is as much an abnor- 
mality as a scarlet-colored sheep would be. God 
has said, however, “‘Though your sins be as scar- 
let they shall be as white as snow, and though 
they be red like crimson they shall be as wool.” 

This liberated bird represents the exuberant 
emotions of the purified and happy soul, free as 
a bird in the air from all the thraldom of sin. 
The officiating priest prefigures Jesus, the 
Saviour. In this striking Mosaic symbolism, 
every essential feature of the gospel is accurately 
and interestingly set forth. Thus, every husk 
of the law contains the kernel of the gospel, and 


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in the wonderful figures used a miracle of 
prophecy is set forth. 

The law is a sack of acorns, and the gospel is 
a forest of giant oaks springing from the same; 
and, as long as the gospel lasts, just so long 
shall last the law from which it sprung. In 
setting forth, prophetically, every essential 
phase of the gosepl in the law, Moses proves 
himself a paramount scientist, a prince of 
prophets, as well as a leader in poetic language 
and figurative parable. Of this radically scien- 
tific law, it may well be said by the Great 
Teacher “who spake as never man spake,” 
“Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one 
tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all 
be fulfilled.” 


CHAPTER X 


NOT once does Moses intimate that he re- 
ceived these truths second hand or acquired 
them by laborious personal research; but he 
declares that God spoke them to him. And now 
modern science incidentally gives them divine 
authority and universal sufferance. It is a 
weakness of humanity to be vain and boastful 
of personal accomplishments. An apostle well 
said of the unregenerate soul, “Knowledge 
puffeth up.” 

And Moses himself declared of the head of 
the race, that badness would find that ‘‘the tree 
of knowledge”’ bore the ‘‘fruit of death.”? What 
man today could, by personal investigation 
laboriously dig out the solid and glorious facts 
and formulas that Moses gave to bless mankind, 
and then deliberately rob himself of the glory 
and pleasure of the acknowledgment of his 
great achievement, and freely ascribe the glory 
all to another? ‘Todo so would be so contrary 
to nature that his very self-abnegation, his 
modesty and humility would prove the very 

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presence and help of that supernatural God 
that the caviler is trying to abolish. 

This horn of this dilemma is as uncomfortable 
to the infidel objector as is his original denial 
of God’s existence in the face of the facts. 
Society, in every age, is materialistic and super- 
ficially unbalanced, and has a tendency, through 
organized intimidation, to make helpless slaves 
and hapless hypocrites of her timorous, time- 
serving votaries, who dare not avow their own 
independent views and champion their own 
truest convictions. Designing leaders ever 
bank on this weakness to enslave their victims. 

If a man must be popular, and will but speak 
the regular “shibboleths” of a certain popular 
group, an orthodox sect or a respectable society, 
he shrinks himself thereby to the thought of 
that particular body, or limits himself to its 
confines, so that to him independence and prog- 
ress becomes impossible. 

The boundless beckoning beyond, the in- 
spirational infinitudes, are closed to him. The 
whispering spheres grow dumb. The prophetic 
fires die out, and the seer’s vision fades. The 
fascinating enchantment charms no more. The 
oracle is mute to this non-responding soul. He 
can then be of no real value to that group, sect 
or society; he becomes only so much more dead 


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matter for them to list. He is at once their 
proselyte and their prisoner, also. 

Samson, now shorn of his strength, makes 
sport for his real enemies. His membership 
makes their body larger by mere accretion; 
but the stock of essential, ethical energy and 
the inspirational sources of true, divine advance- 
ment; the vital flame of incorporeal progress, is 
unaugmented thereby. 

His conformity is a coffin; his new popularity 
is a bouquet in the buttonhole of a dead man; 
his popular eulogium is a funeral oration, and 
the applause of the clique is an inscription on 
the tombstone of his hope; and theirs also, as 
far as he is concerned. 

If they can control him, they do not need him. 
If he has nothing, and sees nothing beyond them, 
he is worse than useless—a teacher with noth- 
ing to teach. 

He has made the blunder of inferiority, and 
labeled mediocrity as excellence. 

His independence was his hope. 

His non-conformity was his possibility. 

If he does not arouse the spirit of emulation, 
or even of invidious jealousy among mediocres, 
then he is but one of them himself. He is 
controlled by the sag of soulless materialism, 
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If he can be classified, tabulated and known 
as regular, he is a mummy; but if he juggles 
with vital causes and conjures ultimate possi- 
bilities, he is dubbed by the wise as dangerous, 
heretical, a disturber of the peace, a non- 
conformist, an independent. He is blackballed 
for his integrity, denounced by dupes and 
dunces, and censured by the simple. He is 
criticised as a criminal for his audacious in- 
dependence, really the most precious inherit- 
ance in his possession. 

This is always the purchase-price of true 
apostleship in every sphere, in all time. Look 
back—every true and God-appointed leader 
went this way and met these things. It is the 
heretical heritage of the real reformer, whether 
it be Moses, or Socrates, or the publisher or 
the reader. The semi-solitude thus created 
became the school of genius, where great souls 
were educated in penetration and self-reliance; 
and character was created in the conflict. The 
whole of Moses’ life and teaching was a justifi- 
cation of this fact; that the rejected man or 
movement is liable to be the right thing in 
the wrong light. 

One is always in good company here, with an 
influential and ultimately regnant minority of 
holy heretical martyrs, whose glorious confession 


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and vicarious sufferings have ever saved an 
ignorant world religiously, politically, econom- 
ically and socially, from self and the devil. 
These intrepid souls are often dubbed intel- 
lectual erratics, unreformed reformers, crazy 
iconoclasts, baleful buccaneers of thought, who 
roam the mental seas to sink all in sight who 
oppose them, without fear of restraint or recog- 
nition of authority. These independent 
thinkers are ever the hope of both the church 
and the world. 

Posterity often has to recast this decision, 
and give these men post-mortem praise as sci- 
entific sorcerers, moral monarchs, who make 
authority or scientific seers and sages who con- 
jured the eternal results. ‘They bemoan the 
earlier fact that the thoughtless throng which 
their fathers led, prescribed ‘“‘hemlock,’ or 
“vinegar mingled with gall,” for their would-be 
saviors. These idol-smashers often act from 
impulse or inspiration wiser than they know, 
oblivious of the philosophical fact that they are 
right in recognizing no authority except justice, 
equity and truth. 

The thing that should be, is to them the only 
authoritative thing. Here even the Almighty 
receives his judicial authority. He is the em- 
bodiment of intelligence, equity, justice and 


170 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


truth. Hestands always for the best to all; and 
this fact is the basis of intelligent faith, or 
human acquiescence in his unlimited imperial 
authority. Deceive even intelligence into con- 
ceiving God’s authority to be merely arbitrary, 
and not intelligently based in justice, and 
where self-interest is concerned, it will resist 
such judicial assumption as an usurpation of 
its inherent rights. 

Herein is often found the seat of conscientious, 
but unenlightened, rebellion. These exceptional 
souls, as advanced heralds of saving truth in 
every realm, of whom the world is not worthy, 
have at first generally been violently opposed 
until their educational agitation has forced a 
recognition. Then their tenets are tolerated; 
next, they are generally accepted, and finally 
crowned with victory, and their authors and 
votaries canonized. Then their own intolerance 
soon begins to become as despotic, tyrannical, 
persecutionary and relentless to new advance- 
ment as previous orthodoxy had been to them. 

Thus folly reproduces itself and history runs 
the old circle. It would be an historic novelty, 
unseen before through the ages, if even now a 
corrupt political body or an apostate church 
should so far tolerate a true reformer as to 
correct, or even acknowledge, their own abuse. 


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The actions of the reformer being a condemna- 
tion to the unreformed, he incurs the vengeful 
animosity of the leaders of the old stereotyped 
order. This was the trouble with the Jews 
in the days of Jesus. 

All these declare, “The world knoweth us 
not.” How could they know the reformer 
without knowing the reform? Or how could 
they know the reform and still remain de- 
formed? True acquaintance with the reformer 
necessarily means practical reformation, and 
real reformation is never collective, but always 
individualistic. The hope of both religion and 
politics is the constant educational reformation 
and progress of the individual; not the re- 
formation of old bodies, but the birth of new 
bodies. The Mosaic church of Israel was a 
hopeless corpse of materialistic formalism in the 
days of Jesus. The hope of progress was the 
birth of something new. 

There is no resurrection for dead churches 
and defunct political bodies. This Egyptian 
world is ever prone, like Pharaoh of old, to 
hang its bakers and exalt its butlers. It is the 
old cry, ‘Away with this man, but release unto 
us Barabas!”’ Society will ever choose known 
and controllable badness, rather than mysteri- 
ous, independent and unclassified excellence. 


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It is the re-enactment of virtue’s embodiment, 
sent bleeding to Golgotha by the decision of 
guilty opulence in the politician’s seat. 

It is generally ignorance, rather than wilful 
wickedness, that does this. Jesus well said of: 
his murderers, ‘‘They know not what they do.” 
While garnishing the sepulchres of the stoned 
prophets of past times, whom their fathers 
martyred in the days of their unpopularity, 
these people are always in the present blindly 
stoning the prophets of their own day, whose 
principles and pronouncements have not yet 
fructified to victory, or won, as they yet will, 
their own late-born popularity. 

They are thereby proving their very dis- 
positinal ‘‘sonship’’ to those fathers whose un- 
happy actions they regretfully extenuate. Very 
many of the Jewish prophets and reformers, 
before Jesus, were used equally as bad as he, 
and by the very people they came to bless. 
This is the sin and general habit of atheistic 
materialists. 

This mad mob overlooks the fact that it 
takes twenty-five to one hundred years in the 
graveyard to make the real prophet or reformer 
popular. If you have walked with God behind 
the vail, if you have fathomed infinity and 
visited the outskirts of boundless immensity, 


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and there heard the creative oracle, and saw 
chaos to cosmos potentially transformed, and 
Paradise appear in possibility from the dark 
eternal void, you must vouch for the vision or 
lose its luminous allurement. 

That light is life to you. 

Defend it or perish. 

Speak or die. 

If you have the light, bear witness to the light. 

Possibilities make responsibilities; action and 
reaction will balance. 

These orthodox heretics in every sphere know 
that there is neither an evolutionary nor a 
revolutionary hope today among the regulars, 
the respectables and the popularly orthodox. 
They are self-satisfied, atrophied and non- 
progressive as mummies. The world’s cranks 
and rebels, and the church’s insubordinates and 
heretics, are often the sages, seers and saviors 
in the vanguard of God’s militant hosts. Suc- 
cess alone is the sound, non-conformist’s present 
hope. 

His future hope is incapable of failure. If he 
temporarily fails, he will go to the stake, the 
gibbet or the potter’s field, like Ridley, Huss, 
Gallileo or John Brown. Then his ashes will 
feed his reform. If he succeeds, he is canonized 
a savior, like Luther, Wesley, Cromwell or 


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Washington. If he fears, he fails; for fear is 
false as faithless, and breeds failure. 

In fact, fear creates and unbelief attracts the 
very things men fear; so that with Job, the un- 
believer may say, “The thing that I feared is 
come upon me.” 

The law and the gospel are supplementary and 
complementary to each other. Moses, and 
Christ as “the prophet like unto Moses” (of 
whom it was prophesied in Deut. 18:15, 18, 19), 
interpret and exalt each other; and Christ, in 
his second coming, will yet fulfil all the hope and 
expectation of the Jews. 

Ostracised, yet sagacious, saviors of the 
nations and ages are the men that God generally 
use to herald forth his latest messages and 
advance his most sacred schemes for the blessing 
of a blasted race. The supporters of the old, 
corrupt order will always antagonize such 
heralds of progress. 

God seldom uses popular men or movements 
to inaugurate his reforms. His usage of the 
unpopular ones may popularize them through 
victory; but, as they grow popular and glory 
in accomplishment and publish statistics like 
David of old, they grow generally useless, and 
God calls another equally unpopular man or 
movement into the arena to reveal his purpose: 
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the martyrs have been the seed of the church,” 
and the sufferings of the few have been the 
salvation of the many. 

If you would bless men, you must bleed for 
them. 

If you would save them, you must suffer in 
their stead. 

Without the shedding of blood there is no re- 
mission. The vicarious or substitutional prin- 
ciple is the hope of the multitudes. He is but 
a “mere hireling whose own the sheep are not,” 
and not ‘‘a true shepherd,” who is unwilling to 
give his life for the sheep. 

The fragrant roses must be crushed before 
their odorous attar can perfume the lives of 
their assailants. The heart of the sugar tree 
must be pierced by the cruel tapping iron, ere 
it can bleed out its nectarous life-sap to sweeten 
the life of its antagonist. The Lamb must be 
slain ere the multitude can be absolved. Thus, 
substitutional suffering is procurative salvation 
for the mob. 

The very opprobrium that sticks to some men 
and movements today should make thoughtful- 
ness anxious to investigate, and see if some real 
troublesome fact, or objectionable virtue, is not 
there issuing, in defiant reform, from the womb 
of providence and striving for recognition. 


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Thus should Christianity appear to Judean in- 
telligence the wide world over, for all that the 
orthodox Jew looked for of old, in the coming of 
a Messiah; Christians are also looking for today 
in the second advent of Jesus. The hope of 
both are one and will have their glorious fruition 
in the same resplendent and beatific appearing 
of Jesus Christ, the rejected and yet expected 
Messiah, the true passover Lamb. 

The scientific soundness and unchanging 
character of the Mosaic law and the certain ful- 
filment of his predictions, are the surety of a 
glorious future yet in store for the Israelitish 
nation. “The prophet like unto Moses,” of 
whom this ancient lawgiver spoke, is yet to come 
from his rejection, as Moses did from his rejection 
of forty years in the mountains of Media. Hewill 
lead the true Israel out of bondage as Moses did, — 
into a ‘‘promised land’”’ of millennial glory. 

As Moses was rejected by his Jewish brethren 
when he first came to deliver them, so was Jesus 
Christ, their true brother and savior. When 
Moses, who was generally supposed to be dead, 
came the second time, he had a Gentile bride 
by his side whom he had taken in the days of 
his rejection. So it will be at the second advent 
of Christ, when he comes in glory as the long- 
looked-for Messiah of the Jews. 


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The Gentile church, as the bride of Christ, 
will be exalted to joint rulership with him, and 
made, as he himself said, “to sit with him on 
thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” 
In all particulars Jesus is to be “a prophet like 
unto Moses,” even in his rejection, his supposed 
death, his return, his Gentile bride and his 
mighty emancipation of his brethren and leading 
of them to ‘‘a promised land” of plenty. See 
Ps. 14:7 and Romans 11:26. “There shall 
come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn 
away ungodliness from Jacob.” ‘That, blind- 
ness in part is happened unto Israel, until the 
fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all 
Israel shall be saved.”” Read Romans 11: 25, 26. 

This same fact, in figure, of a rejected yet 
returned Jewish deliverer, is again described by 
Moses in his depicting of the life of Joseph. 
Here is the exact character and circumstances 
of Christ’s life fully revealed in experimental 
type. Joseph, the last of the patriarches, born 
outside the land of promise, was especially 
beloved of hisfather. This stirred the murder- 
ous jealousy of the others and they determined 
to get rid of him. 

Christ also was the last of the Jewish leaders 
and especially beloved of his heavenly father, 


and because of their own inability to do the 
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works of God, which he was empowered to do, 
the leaders of the Jewish church became jealous 
of him and determined to slay him. They 
thought they had succeeded; but, in both 
cases, the victim was very much alive, because 
of God’s interposition and assistance. Joseph 
had to leave his garment in the hands of a harlot 
and flee for his life, after which false testimony 
placed himinadungeon. From this dungeon, by 
the mercy of God, he was raised to second ruler- 
ship of the Egyptian world and made a savior 
of both Gentiles and Jews during the famine. 

All this is also symbolic of Jesus. His virtue 
and his father’s favor sent him to the dungeon 
of the sepulchre; because of Jewish jealousy, 
leaving the robe of his virtue in the harlot 
hand of his betrayers and all sinners to this day. 
But from that dungeon of the tomb he has been 
raised by the mercy of God to the place of “the 
second ruler of this Egyptian world.” He is 
made a savior of both Jews and Gentiles in 
the meantime. 

Like Moses and Joseph both, Jesus is taking 
a Gentile bride to himself; and, in a great day 
soon to come, he will have fully done so. Read 
his own parable of the virgins in Matt. 25; or 
the parable of the king’s son in Matt. 22:1-14. 
He will soon come again “‘in the day of Jacob’s 


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trouble,”’ asa real savior and deliverer of both 
Jews and Gentiles, as both Moses and Joseph 
in Egypt. 

As then, the Jewish leaders must be humbled 
and made to see and acknowledge their sin, as 
Joseph’s brethren were. But the Gentiles will 
receive him first, as the Egyptians did Joseph. 
As Joseph forgave his brethren, revealing him- 
self to them and providing for them through the 
suffering of the famine, so Jesus, ‘‘the deliverer 
that shall come out of Zion,” will forgive the 
Jews, reveal himself to them and provide for 
them, jointly with the believing Gentiles during 
“the great tribulation” soon to come. 

When this national restoration of Israel is 
brought in, then will be fulfiled Ezekiel’s para- 
ble of ‘the valley of dry bones.” A national 
rebirth is sure to come to Israel, who are beloved 
on the principle of election, “for the father’s 
sake.” 

Then this “prophet like unto Moses’”’ will in- 
deed have become “like unto Moses,” in being 
a deliverer indeed. Read in the Book of the 
Revelation of Jesus Christ, God’s inspired de- 
scription of a great universal exodus that will 
soon emancipate God’s true Israel from the 
Egyptian bondage of this heathen world; just 
as that local, limited exodus did from local bond- 


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age of old. All the plagues of Egypt are herein 
described on a much larger scale by John, as to 
take place again, at the end of this Gentile age, 
even to the final “slaying of the first-born.” 
Thank God, when that day dawns, we all may 
be among those who have been born again, in- 
stead of being like the first-born of the ancient 
Egyptians, who were slain. 

What an exodus this will be, when all true, 
spiritual Jews, trust in the blood of the true 
“Lamb,” for deliverance in this great day of 
God’s real passover. That little, local exodus, 
at the beginning of church history, was but a 
type of this great, coming universal exodus, 
that will take place at the end of church history, 
under “the prophet like unto Moses.” ‘The 
end of the Gentile times” is near. Jerusalem is 
soon to be freed from her Gentile “treading 
down.”’ 

The Jews are now returning to Palestine in 
unbelief. It is the “bones returning to his 
bone,” of which Ezekiel spoke. Christ will yet 
“breathe on these bones,” and “they will 
stand on their feet, a great army’ in national 
resurrection. They will soon have an independ- 
ent government. Jerusalem will yet be “the 
joy of the whole earth.”’ But it will be only 
after the second advent of Christ. 


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Surely, God is essentially a father, and a 
father’s happiness is always connected with the 
health and happiness of his children. This 
being a fact, whatever pleases God will profit 
man; and, God receives no glory where man 
receives no good. 

He never saddles an unnecessary burden on 
humanity; but all his plans and command- 
ments spring out of his infinite love, coupled 
with his infinite knowledge of what is best for 
man. ‘This being true, it necessarily follows 
that he who is unbelieving or untrue to God, 
or disobedient to his commandments, is cor- 
respondingly false to his own best interests. 
By request, in closing, we add just a word of 
explanation. 

All those texts of New Testament scripture 
that speak of clean and unclean meats, keeping 
the law, etc., have to do with the religious, 
rather than the hygienic, physiological or psy- 
chological phases of the question. They refer 
alone to the fact of whether or not said meats 
(usually fruits and vegetables, in those days 
called meats) were offered to idols and conse- 
quently symbolically polluted and made a 
hindrance to spirituality. 

The question of eating any of those creatures 
forbidden by the Mosaic law as physically unfit 


182 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


to eat is never mentioned in the New Testament. 
“‘Christ is the end of the law for righteousness,”’ 
only, and not for physical welfare. He himself 
said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the 
law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, 
but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till 
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle 
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be 
fulfiled.”’ 

Keeping the Mosaic law could benefit the 
body; but only through faith in the future 
Messiah, could spiritual life be imparted to the 
soul. The one never makes void the other. 
They are supplementary to each other. 

The case of Peter’s sheet, full of all kinds of 
four-footed beasts and creeping things that he 
was to “slay and eat,” are to the same effect. 
Peter interpreted it to mean, or symbolize, God’s 
moral cleansing of the Gentiles; and it certainly 
would prove too much of a physical bill of fare 
for even the most ardent atheist or reckless flesh 
eater. No one would want to eat “all kinds of 
creeping things and four-footed beasts.” 

The modern objection to the Mosaic account 
of the Adamic fall is most unreasonable, and 
proves either the ignorance or atheistic animus 
of the objector. Intelligent reflection sees this 
natural and simple story to be true, not only of 


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the first pair, but of nearly every one else as well. 
There was a time in the early, youthful inno- 
cence and infantile ignorance of all men, when 
we lived in an Eden of innocence and a Paradise 
of native purity, naked yet unashamed. In 
our constitutional religiousness, we were in 
harmony with heaven and in tune with Diety. 
We walked with God, and did not know right 
from wrong. 

But we were early told by our elders not to 
do certain inexpedient and harmful things, and 
at this restraint and imaginary invasion of our 
rights, we sophistically chafed, if not openly 
rebelled. ‘The knowledge of good and evil” 
was eventually acquired, and then we deliber- 
ately did the prohibited wrong. We “ate of 
the forbidden fruit.” The result was self- 
condemnation, a sense of guilt, divine disfavor 
and spiritual death. A sad and terrible awaken- 
ing from our sophist-state was ours. Our 
Paradise of purity was polluted, our Eden of 
innocence was forfeited, and we felt that “a 
flaming sword” of wrath was “driving us out”’ 
into a cold and feelingless world. 

Then, conscience-smitten and guilty, we 
patched up a lot of useless excuses, that formed 
a sort of “fig leaf aprons,”’ which were not worth 
a fig to cover our newly-felt, moral nakedness; 


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and so we became “afraid”? of the Heavenly 
Father who was seeking to reclaim us. A 
sense of guilt is the father of ghosts and fear. 
If humanity falls thus today—and even adults 
fall into gross sins, in spite of all the light and 
experience of the ages—why should it be con- 
sidered incredible in the inexperienced first pair? 
Next, as in Adam’s case, God spoke to our be- 
lieving intelligence, and we heard that a Saviour 
was promised, who would “bruise our enemy’s 
head,’’ and deliver us. 

All this is the Mosaic account of Adam’s fall; 
and, remember, that Adam was but an infant 
in years and experience, and had to learn ex- 
perimentally just as we do. What could be 
more true to human experience than this Mosaic 
account of the experience of the first pair? 

The atheists who reject it must also reject 
all intelligent human experience. In perfect 
harmony with this view, New Testament in- 
spiration says, “I was alive without the law 
once, but when the law came sin revived, and 
I died”; for “the law is the knowledge of sin.” 
It reveals the prohibited evil and brings con- 
demnation to the actors, as “the tree of the 
knowledge of Good and Evil.” 

Man, to be God-like, must experimentally 
“know” the evil; to know how to hate it be- 


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cause of its character and consequences. He 
must also experimentally “know” the good; to 
see a reason for loving and cleaving to it, for its 
nature and results. If there were no possibility 
of vice, there could be no such thing as virtue. 
The one exists from the possibility of punish- 
ment for the other being secured. But how 
could there be just punishment where there 
was no moral responsibility or possibility of 
choice or failure? 

Where would virtue find a field of exercise 
and development if vice were an impossibility? 
Our ability to be devilish is the glorification of 
our purpose to be divine, and the possibility 
creates the responsibility. It takes the hard 
problems and the possibility of failure to make 
the scholar. It takes the storms and dangers 
to make the true, experienced sailor. It takes 
the conflict, with its potentiality of dire result 
to develop the heroic and experienced soldier. 
It takes the sufferings in the conflict with sin’s 
encroachment to make the saint. Without the 
existence of sin, sanctity would be a nonentity. 

Men redeemed are to be mightier than men 
unfallen. Instead of untried innocence, man is 
to be possessed with intelligent and victorious 
experience; with the god-like faculty of perfect 
moral knowledge. When man has fought his 


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way back through faith, by grace, to a chosen 
chasity and a voluntary virtue, from the wounds 
of sin, he will know what his untried brother 
ean never fully know. The soul is accountable; 
the majesterial will, in the character of its in- 
telligent and responsible moral choice, is the 
seat of instantaneous vice or virtue. 

Here is the very throne of God in the soul; 
and, in the light of this “Shekinah” of en- 
lightened conscience, men recognize and consti- 
tutionally approve the good, even though they 
may not do it; and they also detect, and in- 
stinctively disapprove of the evil, even though 
they may perform it. 

Just here is manhood made or marred. Here, 
is character crowned or crushed. Bliss or blight, 
heaven or hell, in personal experience is born at 
this fork of the road. Here, the true food of the 
soul—its real nutrition, is found in exalted aim 
and in worthy, altruistic purpose. When, 
through the result of this fall, humanity, as the 
children of God, had gone astray and lost the 
proper moral conception and divine standard of 
character, its ruined state necessiatated the in- 
carnation. Fallen man, projecting the lines of 
his own depraved character into immensity to 
find a conception of deity, in his debased state 
begot, in imagination, a God of infinite dis- 


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tortion and boundless ruin. This false divinity 
produced heathenism. This blind helplessness 
formed a dumb, yet plaintive, prayer for the 
incarnation. This inarticulate cry of the lost 
had been anticipated and pre-arranged for 
by the deity, “before the foundation of the 
world.” 

“In due time,’ Christ came, ‘‘the express 
image of the godhead bodily,” saying, “ He that 
hath seen me hath seen the Father.” Hewasa 
human expression of the Father. He was the 
Father’s ‘“‘ Word made flesh, and dwelling among 
us.” In other words, his life was so perfectly 
moulded on the “ Word”’ that he was that Word 
embodied in human form. He was “the only 
begotten son who dwelleth (eternally) in the 
bosom of the Father.” ‘‘Now are we the sons 
of God,” but we do not always, “‘dwell in God”’ 
or live in the Spirit, sinless, like Christ. It 
is again writen of him that ‘“‘he is the only 
begotten son, full of grace and truth.” Weare 
God’s children, but not always “full of grace 
and truth.” Thus it was written of the Messiah, 
“A body hast thou prepared me.” ‘To project 
the lines of this divine and perfect being into 
immensity, would reveal a perfect deity as 
the ideal standard, supplement and complement 
of the soul. 


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In spite of all denial by atheistic fatalists, 
man is a morally responsible being; and all 
proper government, for both youth and age, 
individual and collective, recognizes this fact. 
The atheistic theory of “determinism,” which 
abolishes freedom of the will and virtue and 
makes man morally irresponsible for his actions 
would destroy every government of earth; and, 
by removing all inducement to self-improvement 
and all restraint from vice, it would turn 
society into an inferno. 

Has God no right to make an intelligent being, 
with moral perception and responsibility, who 
will eventually become, under his educational 
control, voluntarily virtuous and intelligently 
reject vice as incompatible with his best pos- 
sibilities? Must man be so encased in unalter- 
able law that he becomes a mere irresponsible 
automaton? 

Does fatalistic ‘‘determinism” pre-arrange 
and pre-determine our relationship to the law 
of gravitation, the law of life or agriculture. 
No; we feel here a free agency, and recognize 
our ability to control these elastic laws, and to 
derive good results from them by study, and a 
better understanding of them, and with a 
proper adjustment of our lives and efforts in 
harmony with them. Why not the same free- 


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dom and responsiblity in reference to virtue and 
the law of morals? 

Is there no free will here? Can agriculturists, 
mechanics, artists or scientists blame God for 
their failures which are directly attributable to 
their own carelessness or inattention to the 
laws of their respective spheres, and consequent 
inharmony of effort with the same. All in- 
struction is vain, if man has no advantageous 
discrimination and control of his affections and 
ideals, and no free will to reject the baser for the 
better ends. 

Ignorance or neglect mean ruin in other 
spheres, as well as in the moral realm; and by 
placing a premium of success on voluntary in- 
telligence and exalted choice; and a tariff of 
failure on wilful ignorance and base neglect; 
God and all nature call man to wake up, see, 
choose, fight and win; and, in that victory, to 
develop himself into what he otherwise could 
never be. Thus are we “workers together with 
God;”’ in the semi-self-creation of an eternal 
and divine being, out of one of mere moral re- 
sponsibility. 

Is not God justified by the outcome of such 
a plan? He is here reproducing himself in 
moral intelligence and responsibility. He is 
making us the “sons of God.’ Mborally 


190 THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER 


emotional man, through the Messiah will yet 
become dispositionally and voluntarily divine, 
and this transformation from his base and wilful 
vice will be through the educational influencing 
agency of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel, which 
he has freely chosen and intelligently volun- 
teered to obey. This is to be the final harvest 
of “free will,’’ and the true God’s justification 
for its impartation. God thus fully recognizes 
that the authority to punish involves the re- 
sponsibility to instruct. 

We hope that the day will soon come when 
the many-sided Mosaic law, with its underlying 
sanitary science, hygiology, disinfectant hints, 
quarantine laws, elements of equity and general 
scientific teaching will be taught in all the public 
schools of the country. 








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